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For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
– Vince Cable
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
– Lafcadio Hearn
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For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in my intelligence was elsewhere.
– Bruce Springsteen
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
– King Abdullah II
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For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
– Plato
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For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.
– Liam Neeson
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For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
– Havelock Ellis
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Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.
– Ron Lewis
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Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.
– Mark Kennedy
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Few things are as essential as education.
– Walter Annenberg
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
– Major Owens
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
– Jacques Barzun
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Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
– James Hillman
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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
– Nicholas Negroponte
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Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
– William Glasser
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Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.
– Sidney Blumenthal
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Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
– Arne Duncan
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art.
– Barry Commoner
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Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
– Ron Lewis
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Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems.
– Roy Barnes
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
– E. B. White
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Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
– John Dewey
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Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
– Havelock Ellis
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Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
– John Agyekum Kufuor
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Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
– Ambrose Bierce
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Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
– Caroline Kennedy
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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
– Milton Sapirstein
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Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
– Major Owens
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
– Major Owens
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Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
– Barbara Jordan
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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.
– Jerome Bruner
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Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.
– Joyce Meyer
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Education liberates a woman.
– Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education is when you read the fine print experience is what you get when you don't.
– Pete Seeger
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Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
– Sir George Savile
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
– B. F. Skinner
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Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.
– Karl Kraus
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Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education is the vaccine for violence.
– Edward James Olmos
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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.
– William Glasser
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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
– Malcolm X
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Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
– Solomon Ortiz
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Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.
– Edward James Olmos
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
– Edmund Burke
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Education is the best economic policy there is.
– Tony Blair
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
– W. E. B. Du Bois
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Education is not so important as people think.
– Elizabeth Bowen
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
– William Butler Yeats
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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.
– Thomas Moore
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
– Ed Markey
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Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted.
– Alexis Herman
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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Education is for growth and fulfillment.
– Tom Robbins
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Education is all a matter of building bridges.
– Ralph Ellison
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Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.
– Luis Fortuno
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Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
– Rita Mae Brown
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Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
– Joseph Stalin
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
– Marian Wright Edelman
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
– Laurence J. Peter
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Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.
– Benjamin Carson
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
– Kofi Annan
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Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
– Anne Sullivan Macy
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Education has fundamentally changed my life. It's perhaps the mission of my life. I'm wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.
– Bev Perdue
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Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
– David Suzuki
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Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
– Ernest Istook
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
– Garrett Hardin
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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
– Paul Wellstone
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Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.
– Eliza Dushku
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During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.
– Anita Hill
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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.
– Jonathan Kozol
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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
– Steven Spielberg
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.
– Michael N. Castle
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Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
– Clifford Stoll
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
– Barack Obama
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Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.
– Ray Dalio
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Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
– Donna Brazile
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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
– Ernest Dimnet
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Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
– Joe Baca
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Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.
– Michael Moore
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By cutting critical domestic programs such as education, health, environmental protection, and veterans' services, this budget reveals misplaced priorities.
– Dan Lipinski
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By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.
– Michael N. Castle
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But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
– Stuart Pearce
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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
– Jeffrey Archer
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But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students.
– Roy Barnes
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But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
– Mark Kennedy
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But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.
– Polly Toynbee
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But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
– Kathy Ireland
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
– Jack Dee
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Brands must have a point of view on that purposeful engagement, whether it's directed towards the environment, poverty, water as a resource or causes such as breast cancer or education. Merely declaring your commitment to a category or cause will not be enough the distinguish your brand sufficiently to see a return on these well-intended efforts.
– Simon Mainwaring
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Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?
– Beah Richards
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Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat.
– James Van Der Beek
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Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.
– Ryan White
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Because if you don't have a great workforce, a great higher education system, you're not going to have the next eBay, the next AmGen, the next, you know, Miasole, and not only California but America is going to fall behind a whole new competitive context which is obviously China, India, and other countries.
– Meg Whitman
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
– Booker T. Washington
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