“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.”
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“The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.”
“Education is for growth and fulfillment.”
“I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future.”
“Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform.”
“For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.”
“If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.”
“Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.”
“When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.”
“Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.”
“I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they're doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.”
“Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.”
“The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.”
“My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.”
“More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.”
“Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.”
“I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.”
“An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.”
“As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.”
“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.”
“Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.”
“Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.”
“Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.”
“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.”