“Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”
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“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”
“Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.”
“Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.”
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”
“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”
“In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.”
“'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.”
“Nine tenths of education is encouragement.”
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.”
“Freedom can occur only through education.”
“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”
“Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.”
“Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.”
“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.”
“Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.”
“Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.”
“I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.”
“It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
“Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.”
“Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.”