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Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.;William Congreve;education 16071;We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.;H. G. Wells;education 16072;Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.;James Hillman;education 16073;The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.;Oliver Wendell Holmes;education 16074;Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.;Steven Spielberg;education 16075;Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.;Desmond Tutu;education 16076;Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.;Tallulah Bankhead;education 16077;Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.;John Maynard Keynes;education 16078;I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.;Tom Stoppard;education 16079;All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.;Walter Scott;education 16080;Freedom can occur only through education.;Friedrich Schiller;education 16081;I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.;Wynton Marsalis;education 16082;Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.;Laurence J. Peter;education 16083;One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.;Allen West;education 16084;Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.;Rick Perry;education 16085;English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.;E. B. White;education 16086;My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.;Christopher Hitchens;education 16087;How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.;Alexandre Dumas;education 16088;Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.;Gustave Flaubert;education 16089;Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.;Jean-Jacques Rousseau;education 16090;We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.;Paul Ryan;education 16091;It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.;William J. Clinton;education 16092;Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.;Karl Kraus;education 16093;For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.;Bruce Springsteen;education 16094;Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.;Horace Mann;education 16095;I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.;Michael J. Fox;education 16096;Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.;Ed Markey;education 16097;If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.;Derek Bok;education 16098;Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.;Ron Lewis;education 16099;I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.;Thabo Mbeki;education 16100;Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.;Paul Erdos;education 16101;Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.;Havelock Ellis;education 16102;A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.;John Lubbock;education 16103;As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.;Sargent Shriver;education 16104;Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.;Sonia Sotomayor;education 16105;We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.;Suze Orman;education 16106;For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.;Havelock Ellis;education 16107;The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.;Noam Chomsky;education 16108;Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.;Zhuangzi;education 16109;Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.;Jenny McCarthy;education 16110;The key to education is the experience of beauty.;Friedrich Schiller;education 16111;Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.;Norman Schwarzkopf;education 16112;Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.;Jon Meacham;education 16113;We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.;Woodrow Wilson;education 16114;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;education 16115;It is only the ignorant who despise education.;Publilius Syrus;education 16116;If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.;William Jennings Bryan;education 16117;In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.;William J. Clinton;education 16118;Very likely education does not make very much difference.;Gertrude Stein;education 16119;Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.;Bryant H. McGill;education 16120;True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.;Bryant H. McGill;education 16121;Education is the art of making man ethical.;Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel;education 16122;I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.;Ellen Ochoa;education 16123;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.;William Glasser;education 16124;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.;Camille Paglia;education 16125;My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.;Jennifer Garner;education 16126;All real education is the architecture of the soul.;William Bennett;education 16127;You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.;Malcolm X;education 16128;The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.;Jean de la Bruyere;education 16129;My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.;Hugh Jackman;education 16130;A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.;Cornel West;education 16131;In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.;Russell Means;education 16132;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;education 16133;For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.;Michael Caine;education 16134;Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I was there - went to Cambridge. I don't know whether it's the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge.;Tom Hiddleston;education 16135;I've never been a big believer in formal education.;Megan Fox;education 16136;All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.;Emma Goldman;education 16137;Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.;Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel;education 16138;In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.;Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel;education 16139;Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.;Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel;education 16140;Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.;Pearl S. Buck;education 16141;Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.;Billie Joe Armstrong;education 16142;There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.;David Hume;education 16143;We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.;Dan Quayle;education 16144;Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.;Will Durant;education 16145;The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.;Mia Love;education 16146;Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.;Daisaku Ikeda;education 16147;Heart and head are the constituent parts of character temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved.;Giacomo Casanova;education 16148;'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.;Dianne Feinstein;education 16149;Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.;Simon Mainwaring;education 16150;Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.;Brad Henry;education 16151;I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.;Emma Watson;education 16152;In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.;Camille Paglia;education 16153;I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.;Kareem Abdul-Jabbar;education 16154;My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.;Dylan Thomas;education 16155;As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.;Julian Bond;education 16156;Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.;Frederick William Robertson;education 16157;Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?;Cesar Chavez;education 16158;The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.;Sam Houston;education 16159;It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.;Daisaku Ikeda;education 16160;I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.;Susan Orlean;education 16161;Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.;Jim DeMint;education 16162;The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.;Sydney J. Harris;education 16163;President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.;Elizabeth Warren;education 16164;The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.;Mortimer Adler;education 16165;A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.;education 16166;It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.;education 16167;We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.;Sandra Day O'Connor;education 16168;The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.;Kamisese Mara;education 16169;We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.;Maria Montessori;education 16170;Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.;Ron Jaworski;education 16171;The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.;Norman Cousins;education 16172;There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.;Buzz Aldrin;education 16173;The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.;Marilyn vos Savant;education 16174;On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.;Daniel Webster;education 16175;Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.;Seth Graham-Smith;education 16176;The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.;Morris Dees;education 16177;Education is the movement from darkness to light.;Allan Bloom;education 16178;All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.;Earl Warren;education 16179;Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.;Rita Mae Brown;education 16180;When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.;Billy Joel;education 16181;Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.;Barbara Jordan;education 16182;Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.;Garrett Hardin;education 16183;To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.;Alan Greenspan;education 16184;We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning.;Kinky Friedman;education 16185;True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.;Philip Pullman;education 16186;Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.;Thad Cochran;education 16187;There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.;Sachin Tendulkar;education 16188;There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.;Toni Morrison;education 16189;Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.;Judy Biggert;education 16190;Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.;Lawrence Welk;education 16191;A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is a really puzzling thought.;Mikhail Baryshnikov;education 16192;But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.;Kathy Ireland;education 16193;The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.;Samuel Richardson;education 16194;If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.;Samuel Richardson;education 16195;I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.;Danica McKellar;education 16196;I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.;Danica McKellar;education 16197;What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.;Danica McKellar;education 16198;When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.;Jackie Chan;education 16199;I give the children education.;Jackie Chan;education 16200;The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.;Jonathan Sacks;education 16201;The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.;Herbert Spencer;education 16202;Education has for its object the formation of character.;Herbert Spencer;education 16203;Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.;Jonathan Kozol;education 16204;I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.;Anne Sullivan;education 16205;An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.;Charles Kettering;education 16206;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 Macy;education 16207;The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.;Jacques Barzun;education 16208;Outright bans on plastic bags may not be the best solution, but education and incentives to get people to stop using them are necessary.;David Suzuki;education 16209;I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.;Cate Blanchett;education 16210;Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.;Marc Andreessen;education 16211;The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.;David Bailey;education 16212;In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.;Loretta Young;education 16213;Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.;Dee Dee Myers;education 16214;I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.;Billy Sunday;education 16215;By education most have been misled So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.;John Dryden;education 16216;The paradox of education is precisely this that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.;James Baldwin;education 16217;For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.;Thomas Frank;education 16218;Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.;Peter Singer;education 16219;I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.;David Rockefeller;education 16220;Education, like neurosis, begins at home.;Milton Sapirstein;education 16221;One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.;Dennis Prager;education 16222;I believe in education and wish I had a better one.;Loretta Lynn;education 16223;The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.;Sandra Day O'Connor;education 16224;I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nation's schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And it's unfortunate.;Sandra Day O'Connor;education 16225;Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's education.;Sandra Day O'Connor;education 16226;I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.;Eric Bana;education 16227;My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.;Daniel Goleman;education 16228;If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.

- Benjamin Carson

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