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" You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. "
Dennis Miller
You
Education
Know
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" For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. "
Abraham Lincoln
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" Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty. "
Colin Powell
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Children
" We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror. "
Damian Woetzel
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Mirror
Great
" Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student. "
Randi Weingarten
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" There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors. "
Dannel Malloy
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" What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. "
Joseph Addison
Sculpture
Soul
Education
" Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living. "
Dennis Miller
Make
Some
Sell
" Part of the reason I went to college was that I wanted to fade out peacefully: show everybody I had gone through something that was quite challenging and difficult but did so with grace and poise and got an education. "
Cole Sprouse
Difficult
College
Grace
" A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. "
John Lubbock
Wise
Education
Learn
" Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. "
Anne Sullivan
Light
Education
Knowledge
" Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life. "
Maria Montessori
Work
Himself
Man
" I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virtue
Natural
Man
" Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward. "
George Weah
You
Bicycle
Education
" Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism. "
Jane Elliot
Education
Racism
Status Quo
" Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. "
Daniel J. Boorstin
Learning
Know
You
" The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly, I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Education
Problems
Think
" Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete. "
Joyce Meyer
Compete
Everyone
Playing
" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "
Zaha Hadid
Job
Need
Education
" Man can and does rationalize his sins. He finds reasons for all his weakness, invents excuses that first calm and then deaden his conscience. He blames God, society, education, and environment for his wrong doing. "
Mother Angelica
Society
Calm
Education
" There is no cost difference between incarceration and an Ivy League education; the main difference is curriculum. "
Paul Hawken
Incarceration
Difference
Education
" 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
" Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been. "
Richard Branson
Business
Life
Long
" A dynamic economy begins with a good education. "
Bob Taft
Economy
Begins
Good
" I believe that a child going without an education is a crime. "
Kamala Harris
Crime
Believe
Child
" Good questions outrank easy answers. "
Paul Samuelson
Good
Education
Easy
" 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. "
Mary J. Blige
Knowledge
Education
Power
" Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. "
Thomas Jefferson
Education
People
Own
" Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. "
Jane Austen
Story
Education
Hands
" An educated people can be easily governed. "
Frederick the Great
People
Governed
Education
" I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education. "
Callan McAuliffe
Finish
Education
Want