“Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.”
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“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”
“It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.”
“Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.”
“Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.”
“Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”
“I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.”
“The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.”
“The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?”
“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.”
“There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.”
“I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.”
“I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful for the education he gave me in making motion pictures.”
“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.”
“Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.”
“Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.”
“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.”
“The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.”
“Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.”
“Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.”
“Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.”
“My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table I had a tremendous music education.”
“Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.”
“The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.”