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If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy Elliot

A good education should leave much to be desired.
Alan Gregg

Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism
Tony Blair

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

I think that there's this prejudice, that people that have a college education are more intelligent than people that don't.
Casey Affleck

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.
Missy Elliott

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.
John Gardner

I admired Hitler because he came from being a little man with almost no education to power. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
Charlotte Bronte

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country
Bill Frist

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia Gildersleeve

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma Goldman

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Edmund Barton

All real education is the architecture of the soul.
William J Bennett

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.
Bobby Scott

Investing in education comes first
Gordon Brown

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that. [Surely not!]
Sam Dash

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
William Hazlitt

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
Norman Douglas

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I wish my parents had spent more time worrying about my education than me being a star
Shania Twain

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
Tom Robbins

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
Joseph Addison

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Sir Walter Scott

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.
Sparky Anderson

Ignorance is a right! Education is eroding one of the few democratic freedoms remaining to us.
Christopher Andreae

When you don't have an education, you have to use your brains.
Frank Baer

Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia Heimel

One size does not fit all, particularly with education. The more we try to homogenise, the more we really need to differentiate.
Charles Handy

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann

Financial education needs to become a part of our national curriculum and scoring systems so that it’s not just the rich kids that learn about money... it’s all of us.
David Bach

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
Horace Mann

Me having no education. I had to use my brains.
Bill Shankly

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives
Robert Hutchins

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.
Judith Martin

The elimination of war should be the major task of social education
Konrad Lorenz

I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education.
Thomas Jefferson

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
Clarence Darrow

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
Lyndon Johnson

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas Huxley

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. [Education over punishment debate]
J Edgar Hoover

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions
Bishop Creighton

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.
John Gardner

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial.
Timothy Fortune



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