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" The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. "

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" To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes. "

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" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "

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

" When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. "

" What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there. "

" An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. "

" The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. "

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

" Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. "

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

" The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. "

" I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. "

" There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want. "

" We are fighting to pass clean-slate legislation in Pennsylvania to seal nonviolent misdemeanor records automatically after 10 years. We must provide opportunities for employment, housing, education, loans, and voting. We should not disenfranchise a third of the population. "

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

" Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. "

" My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding. "

" As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign. "

" We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. "

" I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. "

" Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation. "

" To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other. "

" It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. "

" I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people. "

" The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. "

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

" We need a comprehensive focus on infrastructure that supports not just transportation but also broadband, education, healthcare, and our environment. "

" My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. "

" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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