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

Sydney J. Harris

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" The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. "

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" A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. "

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" A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained. "

Millicent Fawcett

" No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. "

" If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. "

" All of the things an arts education gives a young person enhance leadership skills and help raise grades. "

" Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. "

" Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. "

" Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. "

" Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. "

" 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

" You could get an entire computer science education for free right now. "

Sebastian Thrun

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

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" While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country. "

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

William Butler Yeats

" Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. "

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" SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. "

William H. McRaven

" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "

" As the first member of my immediate family to graduate from college, I understand the importance access to high quality education plays in preparing our children to learn and compete in a competitive, global workforce. "

" A child miseducated is a child lost. "

John F. Kennedy

" A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. "

" Read in order to live. "

Gustave Flaubert

" In our education system, we are taught to munch figures and remember them for lifetime. But does it help? We are not taught how to make decisions. "

" I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. "

" But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. "

" My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. "

" Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. "

" I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. "

" The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. "

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