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" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation. "
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" I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it. "
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" I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary. "
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" The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. "
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" I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give. "
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" I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.' "
Richard Sherman
" Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children. "
Zachary Taylor
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" The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. "
Robert M. Hutchins
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" The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education. "
Julian Castro
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" 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. "
Piers Anthony
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" I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. "
Tallulah Bankhead
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" I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. "
Emma Watson
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" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "
John Dickey
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" 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. "
Aleister Crowley
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" Well, I think that abstinence has its place as part of a comprehensive health and sex education curriculum. It would be wrong to exclude abstinence from a health curriculum, because there are some potentially very serious ramifications for early sexual activity. "
Kerry Healey
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" Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need. "
Michelle Obama
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" Our growing national debt is a threat to our national defense and to our domestic priorities, including research and development, education, health care, and investments in our economic growth. "
Seth Moulton
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" You discover that the education the Negro gets is designed to keep him subservient. The poor black man is exploited by whites and by educated Negroes, too. "
Medgar Evers
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" Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. "
Malcolm Forbes
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" If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. "
Heinrich Heine
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" 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. "
Mary J. Blige
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" Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. "
George Washington Carver
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" Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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" You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment. "
Michelle Obama
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" Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. "
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" The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. "
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" 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. "
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" Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. "
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