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" This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible. "

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" My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education. "

Edward P. Jones

School

Think

Mother

" Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been. "

" Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. "

" That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return. "

" The progress of the world depends almost entirely upon education. "

" It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

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" If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. "

" Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities. "

" Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability. "

" A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. "

" I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. "

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

" As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. "

" Through work, education, and culture, I will give hope to our country. "

" There are two things in your life which no one can take from you. One is your education, and the other is your body. You cannot gain knowledge just by mugging books, but you can definitely learn things from your practical experiences. "

" Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. "

" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

" The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. "

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

" Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in. "

" My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. "

Christian de Duve

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War

" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "

" In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money. "

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