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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. "

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Phyllis Schlafly

" 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. "

" My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress. "

" Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "

William Butler Yeats

" When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. "

Desiderius Erasmus

" Desegregation of schools does not automatically transform them into better schools. It is only a step. The larger goal is to see that the education of our youth is not merely desegregated, but that it is excellent. "

" Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal. "

" Encouragement of higher education for our youth is critical to the success of our collective future. "

Charles B. Rangel

" If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. "

Julius Genachowski

" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "

William Glasser

" Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. "

" Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought. "

" As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. "

" No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. "

Winston Churchill

" We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. "

" When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things. "

" Technology has transformed how we live, learn and work, but not everyone has been able to participate in these developments. "

" Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system. "

" To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society. "

" Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. "

Nicholas Kristof

" My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. "

" After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level. "

" I never let schooling interfere with my education. "

" Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me. "

" 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

" I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education. "

" The first education to be a good chemist is to do well in high school science courses. Then, you go to college to really become a chemist. You want to take science and math. Those are the main things. "

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