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Artists and intellectuals are not he same animal. This causes a great deal of confusion. Our schools...

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You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right t...

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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches...

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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the mo...

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Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius,...

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Karen ArmstrongThe Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shal...

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I am a machine condemned to devour books.

Defining by a general law the expenditures on the...school....is a very different thing from appoint...

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Karl MarxCritique of the Gotha Program

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don'...

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I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?

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Kathleen NorrisThe Psalms with Commentary

I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted ...

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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

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Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe ...

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The gardener does not make a plant grow. The job of a gardener is to create optimal conditions.

We have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education, and it's impoverishing our spirit and ou...

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Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for th...

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We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of education, a manufacturing model, whic...

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Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.

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Ken RobinsonCreative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

Whatever your aptitudes, the greatest source of achievement is passion. Aptitude matters, but passio...

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Ken RobinsonFinding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

The mistake that many policymakers make is to believe that in education the best way to face the fut...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to ...

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Ken RobinsonThe Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmoth...

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Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indi...

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Marriage can wait, education cannot.

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, educa...

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I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily edu...

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Kingsley AmisThe King's English: A Guide to Modern Usage

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care ...

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every societ...

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The purpose of education is to save young people from the paralyzing effects of wealth and poverty. ...

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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the B...

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I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare...

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then...do something. Don't just stand there, make...

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The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand ther...

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I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What ...

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To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, u...

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Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of al...

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I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...

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Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...

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I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many differ...

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The best education I have ever received was through travel.

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no s...

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Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions t...

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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but ma...

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Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does ...

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The biological equipment of a man rigidly restricts the field in which he can serve.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...

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I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their "different drum": Einstein was...

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I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good educat...

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Derisively, Ronan said, 'No. The ancient Greeks didn't have a word for Blue.'Everyone at the table l...

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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from ...

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Mahatma GandhiHind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the ...

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People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the wo...

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With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

We were learning to struggle. And we were learning how powerful we are when we speak.

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill...

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I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot su...

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The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid ...

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I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to st...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed pol...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Let us pick up our books and our pens,” I said. “They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one ...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

I love my God. I thank my Allah. I talk to him all day. He is the greatest. By giving me this height...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to st...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

His sisters -- my aunts -- did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. E...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education ...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

As we crossed the Malakand Pass I saw a young girl selling oranges. She was scratching marks on a sc...

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Malala YousafzaiI Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the ...

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Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?''It's like having an operation,' sa...

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This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so pain...

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Malcolm BradburyEating People is Wrong

..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion a...

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The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can b...

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Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today...

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An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I ...

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The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific g...

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Malcolm XMalcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there, in prison,...

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The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more ex...

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Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge numbe...

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What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to...

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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialc...

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subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filli...

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Marge PiercyDance the Eagle to Sleep

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself--that is the first duty of the educato...

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The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individua...

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