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" Somewhere in Rwanda, a rural farmer is dreaming of providing an education for her children. Not just high school, but maybe even a university degree. Such a dream used to seem out of reach. "

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" My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. "

John H. Johnson

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" The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. "

" If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. "

" 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. "

" The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. "

" The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. "

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

" Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. "

" No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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" The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. "

" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "

" We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America. "

" I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. "

" The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. "

" 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. "

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

" In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford. "

" What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. "

" I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities. "

" In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. "

" I went to a regular school... education kept me sane. "

" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "

" To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education. "

" A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity. "

" In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions. "

" No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. "

" Nobody wants to pay higher taxes. But do you want your kids to get a good education? You have to pay for that. Do you want Medicare for senior citizens? I do. We have to pay for it. "

" We need sex education in schools, but we need it at home first. We need parents to learn the names of the teachers who are teaching their children. We need families to question day-care centers, to question other children and their own as to what goes on. "

" Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. "