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" While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. "

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" 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

" Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. "

Charlotte Bronte

" The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not. "

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

" It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. "

" It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. "

Brooks Atkinson

" Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations. "

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. "

" The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. "

Michael Jackson

" I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart. "

" Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communities, schools, and national Ministries of Education to build a system of protection and support around girls, ensuring that they receive the education that is their right. Financial support is provided alongside a social support system. "

" 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. "

" Without an education, you won't have a future. "

" In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money. "

" 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. "

" Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. "

" I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. "

Michel de Montaigne

" Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions. "

Phyllis Schlafly

" Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels. "

" Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. "

" It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education. "

Marjane Satrapi

" If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around. "

" On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. "

" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. "

Herbert Spencer

" Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support. "

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

Orison Swett Marden

" I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman. "

" The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. "

Bryant H. McGill