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- 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 on Education
- Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
- Rutherford B. Hayes on Education
- Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
- Marian Wright Edelman on Education
- Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
- Blanche Lincoln on Education
- Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Education
- Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
- Sonia Sotomayor on Education
- Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
- Harry S. Truman on Education
- Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Education
- 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 on Education
- Very likely education does not make very much difference.
- Gertrude Stein on Education
- Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
- Julian Bond on Education
- Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
- Conrad Burns on Education
- We all have a responsibility to volunteer somewhere and I'm lucky that I get the education and get taken to places to see what's out there and see what's happening and to then be a part of it in hopefully an impactful way.
- Jennifer Garner on Education
- We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Education
- We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
- Dan Lipinski on Education
- We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
- Bertrand Russell on Education
- 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 on Education
- We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
- Barack Obama on Education
- 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 on Education
- We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
- Earl Warren on Education
- We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
- Maria Montessori on Education
- We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
- Estelle Morris on Education
- We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed - jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back to yesterday.
- Eva Longoria on Education
- We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.
- Ryan White on Education
- We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
- Barack Obama on Education
- We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
- Yakov Smirnoff on Education
- We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Education
- 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 on Education
- We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it. It costs us a tremendous amount of money of course in health care, in education, and then, on top of it all, in incarceration. And the federal government doesn't reimburse us on any of these things.
- Jan Brewer on Education
- We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.
- Arthur Ashe on Education
- We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.
- 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.
- We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.
- Donna Shalala on Education
- 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 on Education
- 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 on Education
- We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
- Dan Quayle on Education
- We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
- Carol Moseley Braun on Education
- 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 on Education
- We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
- Nicholas Negroponte on Education
- 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 on Education
- What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
- Stephen King on Education
- What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on Education
- What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. on Education
- 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 on Education
- What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
- Wendell Phillips on Education
- What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
- Kathleen Turner on Education
- What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison on Education
- What the mayors care about is, 'How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?'
- Michael Nutter on Education
- What we're doing now is we're saying that individual schools can spend the money on their own priorities, so that head teachers can decide what's truly important, because the big shift in approach on education that we're taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
- Michael Gove on Education
- What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.
- Joschka Fischer on Education
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