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If income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
Robert Coleman

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

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!
Peter F Drucker

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
Camille Paglia

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten
B F Skinner

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Academies are leading the reforms that will radically
improve secondary education in this country.
David Miliband

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm

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's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes

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

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.
Miguel Ferrer

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.
Simon Bolivar

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
Caroline Bird

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

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.
Emma Goldman

Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life.
Brad Henry

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey Hepburn

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights
Susan Taylor

Education, education, education (well-known mantra)
Tony Blair

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Elizabeth Blackwell

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

I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman.
Thomas Day

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

Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations.
Maya Angelou

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

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

Gentlemen: I have not had your advantages. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Horatio Bottomley

A different type of education came when as a member of a medical corps in the National Guard I spent several weeks in a military camp in California.
Paul D Boyer

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
Fannie Farmer

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.
Chuang Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David Hume

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Theodore Roosevelt

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Smiley Blanton

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

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.
Howard Baker

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education
James McCosh

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Harold Rosenberg

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert G Ingersoll



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