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Education Quotes
Words on learning, access, and opportunity.
These education quotes focus on the difficulty of building strong leadership within schools and the honest acknowledgment that a privileged background shapes how someone approaches education work. Several point to diversity in higher education as an unresolved national challenge. Related content lives in our Suvichar collection.
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The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
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Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
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Father had notions about manhood suffrage, public schools, the education and the elevation of the masses, and the gradual emancipation of the slaves, that did not suit the uncompromising views of people in places like Richmond.
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I'm excited about seeing a bipartisan plan to reform education in the United States. The only other option is to protect the status quo and I really don't think anybody wants to do that.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
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A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good education, a gentleman, as well as a seaman both in theory and practice.
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Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.
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Education, when delivered properly, can benefit a lot of people and make productive citizens out of those otherwise given no hope.
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In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I left school I went onto the shop floor, working 12-hour shifts in a TV factory. My workmates were sharp, skilled and all capable of enjoying higher education - but they didn't have that opportunity.
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