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- If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
- If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
- Jane Fonda on Education
- If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
- If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
- Estelle Morris on Education
- If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
- Sargent Shriver on Education
- If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
- Maria Montessori on Education
- If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt on Education
- If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
- Galileo Galilei on Education
- If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
- Edmund Barton on Education
- If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
- Clay Aiken on Education
- 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.
- 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 on Education
- If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
- Maynard James Keenan on Education
- If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.
- Stockwell Day on Education
- If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
- Heinrich Heine on Education
- If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
- Harri Holkeri on Education
- If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
- Patrick J. Kennedy on Education
- If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
- William Glasser on Education
- If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
- William Jennings Bryan on Education
- If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
- Virginia Woolf on Education
- If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.
- Jami Gertz on Education
- 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 on Education
- If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
- Bo Jackson on Education
- If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.
- William Glasser on Education
- If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
- Ray Bradbury on Education
- If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
- Nicholas Negroponte on Education
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
- Frank Zappa on Education
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
- Mary Astell on Education
- Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
- Ric Keller on Education
- Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.
- Timothy Murphy on Education
- Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
- Eva Longoria on Education
- In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
- Camille Paglia on Education
- In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
- David Miliband on Education
- In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
- Carol Bellamy on Education
- In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.
- Loretta Young on Education
- In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.
- Scott Walker on Education
- In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
- James Payn on Education
- In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.
- Piers Anthony on Education
- In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.
- Tom Vilsack on Education
- In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.
- Richard Cobden on Education
- In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Education
- In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.
- Gael Garcia Bernal on Education
- In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
- H. G. Bissinger on Education
- In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
- Eva Longoria on Education
- In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
- Bobby Jindal on Education
- In our post-9/11 world, our Nation's military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.
- Mike Rogers on Education
- In Philadelphia, our public safety, poverty reduction, health and economic development all start with education. We can't grow the middle class if we don't give our kids the tools they need to innovate and invent.
- Michael Nutter on Education
- In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.
- John Strachan on Education
- In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.
- Marlo Thomas on Education
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