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

Herbert Spencer

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" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. "

" Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. "

" Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. "

" 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

" A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. "

" I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody. "

Sebastian Thrun

" It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. "

" My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in the American South was to be deprived of access to anything close to a reasonable education. He only had three years of formal education, but he was self-taught. He read two newspapers a day. "

Kenneth Frazier

" Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing. "

" In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. "

Queen Rania of Jordan

" I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs. "

" If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them. "

" Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. "

" The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. "

" 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. "

" A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. "

" Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. "

" By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in. "

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

Thomas Jefferson

" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" Education can also be used as a soft power and as a soft force to transform societies. When I say transform societies it means we can tackle issues in political, social, cultural, economic areas. These are the most important things. "

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" Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. "

John F. Kennedy

" And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background. "

" The education of a man is never completed until he dies. "

" I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "

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