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" There is no greater education than one that is self-driven. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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" The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. "

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" It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. "

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" Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. "

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" Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education. "

" Common Core is a big win for education. "

" Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. "

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

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" Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. "

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" It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise. "

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" The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture. "

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" Healthcare as a human right, it means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade-school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. "

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" I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer. "

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