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" 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. "

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" We're not a racist organization, because we understand that racism is an excuse used for capitalism, and we know that racism is just - it's a byproduct of capitalism. "

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" 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. "

" Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had. "

" I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it. "

" I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. "

" My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. "

" Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability. "

" I cannot believe that my generation may very well have been the last one to have sex education in schools that was truly the complete and total package. I mean what are we doing? Are we in the future, but acting like it's The Dark Ages? "

" Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys. "

" A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals. "

" The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. "

" I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. "

Al Green

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" Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. "

Mahatma Gandhi

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" Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information. "

" Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. "

" Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you don't have a high level of training or education you're going to fall into that category. "

" His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. "

" 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. "

" The only real failure in life is one not learned from. "

" 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. "

" I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. "

" Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. "

George Washington Carver

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" Education is a precondition to survival in America today. "

Marian Wright Edelman

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" We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. "

" If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. "

" The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. "

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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" Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. "

" Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life. "

" We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading. "

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