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" Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

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" Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. "

" Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. "

" Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years. "

" My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back. "

" Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. "

" Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. "

" If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else. "

Cornelius Vanderbilt

" The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn. "

Martin O'Malley

" The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. "

" My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. "

" I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education. "

Robert H. Schuller

" A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. "

Charles B. Rangel

" One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so. "

Christine Gregoire

" When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. "

" I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian. "

" In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. "

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

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" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. "

Herbert Spencer

" Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education. "

" When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty. "

Winnie Byanyima

" I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. "

Peter Diamandis

" Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. "

" Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system. "

" Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health. "