“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.”
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“Education, like neurosis, begins at home.”
“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.”
“I believe in education and wish I had a better one.”
“The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.”
“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.”
“Parents should continue to become more involved with their communities, and more involved in their children's 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.”
“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.'”
“Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.”
“Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.”
“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.”
“Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.”
“To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.”
“Education is the best economic policy there is.”
“Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.”
“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.”
“I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.”
“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.”
“Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.”
“When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.”
“Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.”
“Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.”
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”