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" We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror. "

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" With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' "

" 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. "

" Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

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

" It is such a tricky transition between education and work. "

James William Middleton

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

Self-Confidence

" Federal government has forced a one-size-fits-all model on our education system. "

" For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. "

" So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible. "

" We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. "

Maria Montessori

" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "

" An educated people can be easily governed. "

Frederick the Great

" Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men. "

W. E. B. Du Bois

" If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. "

" In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. "

" Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you. "

" The willingness to learn new skills is very high. "

" It is better to learn late than never. "

Publilius Syrus

" The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

" Responsibility educates. "

Wendell Phillips

" I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward. "

Chuck Fleischmann

" The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was. "

" Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message. "

" Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society. "

Maria Montessori

" I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question. "

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

Shakuntala Devi