“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.”
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“The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.”
“It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.”
“We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.”
“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.”
“The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.”
“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”
“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.”
“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.”
“All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.”
“Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.”
“When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.”
“Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.”
“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.”
“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.”
“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.”
“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.”
“There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.”