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" Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. "

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" Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. "

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

" I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. "

" 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. "

" No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. "

Rabindranath Tagore

" Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. "

" If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. "

" It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education. "

" In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared. "

" 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. "

" With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job. "

Jennifer Granholm

" An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. "

" Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems. "

" It is always in season for old men to learn. "

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

George Santayana

" We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. "

" The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. "

" The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. "

" We need to focus on reducing property taxes. We need to focus on education funding. We need to focus on getting term limits on elected officials. "

" Look at the problem of drug-resistant TB in the world. Look at HIV in the world. What's going to be required for everybody in the long run is the ability to do complex health interventions in poor settings. "

" I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody. "

Sebastian Thrun

" I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language. "

Shakuntala Devi

" Before the child ever gets to school it will have received crucial, almost irrevocable sex education and this will have been taught by the parents, who are not aware of what they are doing. "

" The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. "

" Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it. "

" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" The number one way that we can address these long-term challenges of poverty, of education, is to invest in early childhood education. "

" Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. "