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" School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. "

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" I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. "

Sandra Day O'Connor

" Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. "

Rutherford B. Hayes

" In my house, education was the paramount value. And if you grew up in a neighborhood like mine, you were forced to decide early on what you stood for in life, because there were a lot of peer pressures that could take you the wrong way. "

Kenneth Frazier

" Freedom can occur only through education. "

Friedrich Schiller

" The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so. "

Harriet Martineau

" The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more. "

" Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care. "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. "

" Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. "

" Education is freedom. "

" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

Self-Confidence

" As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin. "

" It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible. "

" My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. "

" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors. "

" A child miseducated is a child lost. "

John F. Kennedy

" We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials. "

" Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. "

" With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. "

Jennifer Granholm

" My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. "

Stanley B. Prusiner

" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "

William Glasser

" Education is the cheap defense of nations. "

" Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. "

Donella Meadows

" The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything. "

Alexander Skarsgard

" Not long ago, women in Afghanistan were required by Taliban leadership to be covered nearly head-to-toe and were barely allowed to leave the home; that young Afghan women today are not only accessing an education but are able to meet young people from around the world and cheer on a robot of their own making is something beautiful. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal. "

" Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand. "

" Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. "

" Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary. "