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" While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country. "

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" 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. "

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" Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. "

" You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew. "

" I got great sex education, and I always knew that if I wanted to be sexually active, I had to have safe sex. "

" A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society. "

" I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban. "

" I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education. "

" Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. "

" To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality. "

" 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. "

" Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education. "

" Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up. "

" Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. "

" 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. "

" This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. "

" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "

" Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. "

" In America we believe that every child, no matter where they live, who their family is, or what the color of their skin, is entitled to as good an education as the richest parent in America can give to their children. "

" I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give. "

" My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life. "

" Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities. "

" The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. "

" If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. "

" An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. "

" Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question. "

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

" I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. "