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" The mere imparting of information is not education. "

Carter G. Woodson

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" Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. "

" You can't continue to have higher education tuition grow at a multiple of the rate of inflation. "

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" Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen. "

" Education is the development of power and ideal. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin. "

" 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. "

Abraham Lincoln

" To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. "

" Good questions outrank easy answers. "

" It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. "

" We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror. "

" 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

" I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education. "

Richard Dawkins

" You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. "

" I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex. "

" Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. "

" The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. "

William S. Burroughs

" 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

" Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. "

Albert Einstein

" My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated. "

Stanley B. Prusiner

" Millennials easily connect the dots between good education and good opportunities, and they also understand that it isn't just hard work that determines how well a child will be educated - it also depends on where they live and the resources their parents commit to their education. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government. "

Charles B. Rangel

" To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. "

" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "

" Sex education has to do with what's in people's head. "

" 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. "