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" SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. "

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" The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn. "

Adam Grant

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" I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. "

" Our public education system does a great job. I don't think it's broken. We aren't interested in doing reform for reform's sake. I believe in public education; it did a great job for me. It deserves our support and encouragement. "

" Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. "

" All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. "

Emma Goldman

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" Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone. "

" Your library is your paradise. "

" No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. "

" I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. "

" I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. "

" We're trying to get the SEAL community back to where we think it should be - quiet professionalism. "

" Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. "

" Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. "

" Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. "

" Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. "

" Hard work, years of sacrifice, and dedication are necessary to succeed in the real world. Snowden's most notable accomplishment was lying about his military service, his experience, and education to procure a job with the NSA in the first place. "

" Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. "

" You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison. "

" Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. "

" To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. "

" Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. "

" It is always in season for old men to learn. "

" Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies. "

" While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country. "

" In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children. "

" Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to. "

" Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. "

" Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. "

" Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts. "

" The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. "