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" To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education. "

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" I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted. "

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" My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. "

" The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. "

" The most valuable investment we can make is in our children's education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn. "

Martin O'Malley

" Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy. "

Kristen Soltis Anderson

" There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist. "

" The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. "

George Santayana

" We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. "

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. "

" If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided. "

" It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society. "

" My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. "

" We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. "

Bertrand Russell

" Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen. "

" The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of federalism with the states. Clearly, President Bush has had a different vision, and that vision has resulted in education and welfare policies that have increased the size and scope of government. "

" An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. "

" I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. "

Wilma Mankiller

" A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. "

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" I would never have been able to find my voice if I didn't have music education. "

" We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life. For a decent and humane life, we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing, and effective and compassionate medical care. "

" Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world. "

" To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life. "

Baruj Benacerraf

" If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught. "

Oscar Hammerstein II

" The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. "

Carter G. Woodson

" My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back. "

" We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives. "

" We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind. "

" 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. "

" We already know that kids who get put in front of TVs instead of interacting, this is not good in all kinds of ways. And it's just not good for their cognitive - it's not good for their social development - I mean, that is incredible that kids in kindergarten... We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education, not moving into them. "