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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
- Kate Atkinson on Education
My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
- Nicholas Negroponte on Education
My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.
- Clarence Thomas on Education
My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.
- Spike Lee on Education
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 on Education
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
- Robert M. Hutchins on Education
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
- Susie Bright on Education
My job is to make sure that if you're a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That's my job and that's what I think about every day.
- Rick Scott on Education
My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.
- Jennifer Garner on Education
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
- Adam Carolla on Education
My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.
- Jennifer Garner on Education
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.
- Matt Damon on Education
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
- Sloane Crosley on Education
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
- Maya Angelou on Education
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
- Twyla Tharp on Education
My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the farm while her brother and sister got an education. However, she came to England on a visit and never went back.
- Julie Walters on Education
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
- John H. Johnson on Education
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
- George Washington on Education
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
- Benedict Cumberbatch on Education
My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
- Debra Messing on Education
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
- David Oyelowo on Education
My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.
- Jennifer Garner on Education
My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.
- Renee Fleming on Education
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.
- Graham Norton on Education
My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.
- Julie Bowen on Education
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 on Education
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
- Ian Mcewan on Education
My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home.
- Mike Pence on Education
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
- Jet Li on Education
Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.
- Matthew Simpson on Education
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Education
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Marcus Aurelius on Education
Nature has always had more force than education.
- Voltaire on Education
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield on Education
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- Anatole France on Education
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
- William Law on Education
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt on Education
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
- Plato on Education
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Education
No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.
- David Baker on Education
No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
- Louis L'Amour on Education
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman on Education
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
- Bobby Scott on Education
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.
- Brad Henry on Education
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill on Education
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
- Henry Adams on Education
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge on Education
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 on Education
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
- Vince Cable on Education
Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.
- George Osborne on Education

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