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" The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. "

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" We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. "

" There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things. "

" The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education. "

" Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Until we have comprehensive financial education, we'll never see the end of our booms and busts. "

Robert Kiyosaki

" I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated. "

" 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. "

" 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

" He that loves reading has everything within his reach. "

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

" A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. "

" When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life. "

" Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. "

" Social services, not wealth per se, seem to be the key to lower birth rates. The Chinese, although among the poorest peoples of the world, have brought their fertility rate down to 2.4, partly by social coercion, but mostly by broadly available education, health care and family planning. "

Donella Meadows

" Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system. "

" Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. "

" Education should learn from the positive side of gaming - reward, accomplishment, and fun. "

Sebastian Thrun

" While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. "

" Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. "

" Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. "

Albert Einstein

" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. "

" Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce? "

" If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? "

Maria Montessori

" Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education. "

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

" Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. "

Milton Friedman

" A good education is a foundation for a better future. "

Elizabeth Warren

" Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success. "