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" To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. "

Aleister Crowley

Mind

Education

Discipline

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" Since Mary is the prototype of pure womanhood, the imitation of Mary must be the goal of girls' education. "

" When our forbears - yours and mine - came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life. "

" There is no common standard for education about diagnosis. Distinguishing between bipolar depression and major depressive disorder, for example, can be difficult, and mistakes are common. Misdiagnosis can be lethal. Medications that work well for some forms of depression induce agitation in others. "

" It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. "

" Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. "

" Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.' "

" No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. "

" Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. "

" Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. "

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

" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "

Sonia Sotomayor

" The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Intelligence

Education

Character

" True security is based on people's welfare - on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it. "

" We need to end the government monopoly in education by transferring power from bureaucracies and unions to families. The era of defining public education as allegiance to centralized school districts must end. "

" I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.' "

Richard Sherman

" Education, for me, has helped me in my music. "

Bob Livingston

Education

Helped

" I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate. "

" Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional. "

" I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.' "

" Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. "

" Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education. "

Jameela Jamil

Education

Choices

" It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. "

" Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. "

Mahatma Gandhi

Building

Education

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Without

Better

Education

" I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life. "

" The mere imparting of information is not education. "

" Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations. "

" Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. "

Nancy Astor

Real

Humanity

" One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits. "