“Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society.”
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“We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.”
“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.”
“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”
“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.”
“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.”
“My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.”
“I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.”
“I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive.”
“Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education.”
“The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.”
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”
“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.”
“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”
“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.”
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”
“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”
“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”
“The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.”
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”