“Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.”
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“Education is a vacine for violence.”
“Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.”
“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.”
“Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.”
“I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.”
“Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.”
“I definitely had a top-notch education.”
“I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.”
“Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.”
“I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.”
“My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.”
“You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.”
“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.”
“Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.”
“You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.”
“Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.”
“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.”
“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.”
“I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.”
“Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.”
“I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.”
“We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.”
“My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.”