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" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. "

Thomas Jefferson

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" I am very much a person who likes to change with the times. Education is what it is all about. "

" True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

Thomas Jefferson

" During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. "

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" Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty. "

Kathleen Blanco

" In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes all the time, and we should not even hope that we could create a general model that accurately describes the world in all its possible states. "

" 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

" A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. "

Thomas Jefferson

" When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. "

Ta-Nehisi Coates

" A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "

" All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti

" It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be. "

" There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming. "

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men. "

" The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. "

" Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. "

Anthony J. D'Angelo

" Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. "

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa. "

" Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

" Nine tenths of education is encouragement. "

" Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. "

Thomas Jefferson

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. "

Marcus Aurelius

" I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things. "