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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tara Westover

Education

Ideas

Job

" Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. "

" My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. "

" Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. "

" Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in. "

Muhammad Yunus

Education

Village

" 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. "

" The best escalator to opportunity in America is education. "

" Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure. "

Parker Palmer

Life

Challenges

" While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize. "

" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "

" That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for my education. "

" 'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering. "

" Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. "

" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "

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

" When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty. "

" I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances. "

" The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination. "

" Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. "

" I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do. "

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

" Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Food

Necessary

Mind

" I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people. "

" A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. "

" No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. "

" The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. "

" I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. "

" Americans want students to get the best education possible. We want schools to prepare children to become good citizens and members of a prosperous American economy. "

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

" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "