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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

    Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
   

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

    Author: Abdoulaye Wade
   

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

    Author: Abdoulaye Wade
   

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

    Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
   

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

    Author: Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
   

Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

    Author: Abraham Flexner
   

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

    Author: Abraham Robinson
   

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

    Author: Adam Rickitt
   

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

    Author: Adam Weishaupt
   

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

    Author: Adolf Hitler
   

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

    Author: Agnes de Mille
   

It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

    Author: Agnes Repplier
   

I pledge to you today that as president, in my first budget, I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.

    Author: Al Gore
   

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

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.

    Author: Alan Greenspan
    Topics: Education

A good education should leave much to be desired.

    Author: Alan Gregg
    Topics: Education

We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!

    Author: Alan Hansen
   

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

    Author: Alan K. Simpson
   

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

    Author: Alan Parsons
   

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

    Author: Alan Perlis
   

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

    Author: Albert Einstein
    Topics: Education

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

    Author: Albert Einstein
    Topics: Education

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

    Author: Albert Einstein
    Topics: Education

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

    Author: Albert Shanker
   

I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.

    Author: Alberto Juantorena
   

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

    Author: Alcee Hastings
   

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

    Author: Aldo Leopold
   

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

    Author: Aldous Huxley
   

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

    Author: Aleister Crowley
   

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.

    Author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
   

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

    Author: Alexander Pope
   

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

    Author: Alexander Pope
   

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

    Author: Alexandre Dumas
    Topics: Education

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.

    Author: Alexis Herman
   

It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it.

    Author: Alexis Herman
   

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

    Author: Alexis Herman
   

If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.

    Author: Alfred Kazin
   

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

    Author: Alfred Rosenberg
   

We are the transition from one education to the other.

    Author: Alfred Rosenberg
   

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

    Author: Alice James
   

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised.

    Author: Alicia Machado
   

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

    Author: Allan Bloom
    Topics: Education

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

    Author: Allan Bloom
    Topics: Education

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

    Author: Allen Boyd
   

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education.

    Author: Allen Weinstein
   

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

    Author: Alphonso Jackson
   

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

    Author: Alphonso Jackson
   

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

    Author: Amar Bose
   

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

    Author: Amber Tamblyn
   

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 know and what you don't.

    Author: Anatole France
    Topics: Education

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.

    Author: Anatole France
   

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

    Author: Anatole France
   

And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it's not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.

    Author: Andre Braugher
   

I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

    Author: Angela Merkel
   

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

    Author: Angelina Grimke
   

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

    Author: Anita Hill
   

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

    Author: Anita Roddick
   

A good education is another name for happiness.

    Author: Ann Plato
   

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

    Author: Ann Plato
   

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.

    Author: Anna Friel
   

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

    Author: Anna Garlin Spencer
   

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

    Author: Anna Garlin Spencer
   

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

    Author: Anna Lindh
   

Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.

    Author: Anne Campbell
   

There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.

    Author: Anne Campbell
   

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

    Author: Anne Seward
   

I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.

    Author: Anne Sullivan
   

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.

    Author: Anne Sullivan Macy
   

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

    Author: Anne Sullivan Macy
   

The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.

    Author: Anne Sullivan Macy
   

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.

    Author: Anthony Weiner
   

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.

    Author: Antonia Fraser
   

Education is the transmission of civilization.

    Author: Ariel Durant
   

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

    Author: Aristotle
    Topics: Education

Education is the best provision for old age.

    Author: Aristotle
    Topics: Age

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

    Author: Aristotle
   

When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment.

    Author: Arlen Specter
   

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

    Author: Arlen Spector
   

Let's remember the children who come from broken homes, surrounded by crime, drugs, temptation, their peers having babies out of wedlock, but who still manage to get a good education despite the many obstacles they face every day.

    Author: Armstrong Williams
   

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

    Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
   

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

    Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
   

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

    Author: Arthur Ashe
   

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

    Author: Arthur Boyd
   

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

    Author: Arthur Capper
   

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

    Author: Arthur Capper
   

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.

    Author: Arthur Capper
   

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.

    Author: Arthur Hailey
    Topics: Education

The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.

    Author: Arto Lindsay
   

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

    Author: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
   

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

    Author: Avery Brundage
   

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.

    Author: Avery Brundage
   

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

    Author: B. F. Skinner
   

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

    Author: B. R. Hayden
    Topics: Education

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

    Author: Barack Obama
   

I think Democrats are right. We fight for the American dream, for the environment, for privacy rights, a woman's right to choose, a good public education system.

    Author: Barbara Boxer
   

Tonight, you are hearing from the Democratic women of the Senate... We stand together on so many issues: economic prosperity, quality education for all, protecting a woman's right to choose.

    Author: Barbara Boxer
   

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

    Author: Barbara Jordan
   

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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

    Author: Abdul Kalam
   

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

    Author: Al Capp
   

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

    Author: Al Gore
   

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise.

    Author: Alan Autry
   

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

    Author: Alan Keyes
   

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.

    Author: Alton Brown
   

Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

    Author: Ambrose Bierce
   

Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

    Author: Barbara Mikulski
   

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

    Author: Barbara Walters
   

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

    Author: Barnaby C. Keeney
   

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

    Author: Barney Frank
   

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

    Author: Barry Commoner
   

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?

    Author: Beah Richards
   

There is no education like adversity.

    Author: Benjamin Disraeli
   

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

    Author: Benjamin Disraeli
    Topics: Education

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

    Author: Benjamin Franklin
    Topics: Education

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

    Author: Bennie Thompson
   

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

    Author: Bernie Sanders
   

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

    Author: Bertrand Russell
   

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

    Author: Bertrand Russell
   

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.

    Author: Bill Cosby
    Topics: Funny

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.

    Author: Bill Delahunt
   

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

    Author: Bill Frist
   

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country.

    Author: Bill Frist
   

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

    Author: Bill Frist
   

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities.

    Author: Bill Lear
   

This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.

    Author: Bill Owens
   

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

    Author: Bill Richardson
   

The smartest thing we can do to create high-wage jobs and grow our economy is to keep our focus on education.

    Author: Bill Richardson
   

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

    Author: Bill Vaughan
   

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

    Author: Billie Joe Armstrong
   

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

    Author: Billy Joel
   

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

    Author: Billy Sunday
   

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

    Author: Blanche Lincoln
   

Whether it's making sure that families have access to quality health care and child care, or making sure that our children receive the best educational opportunities we can give them, we must remain committed to these needs because our children are our future.

    Author: Blanche Lincoln
   

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

    Author: Bo Jackson
   

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

    Author: Bo Jackson
   

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

    Author: Bob Beauprez
    Topics: Education

NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

    Author: Bob Inglis
   

We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more.

    Author: Bob Inglis
   

Education, for me, has helped me in my music.

    Author: Bob Livingston
   

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

    Author: Bob Riley
   

The amount of money we spend on education is important, but not nearly as important as how the money is spent.

    Author: Bob Riley
   

A dynamic economy begins with a good education.

    Author: Bob Taft
   

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

    Author: Bob Taft
   

In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.

    Author: Bobby Jindal
   

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

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.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs.

    Author: Bobby Scott
   

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

    Author: Bobby Unser
   

All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don't think I would've done as good without an education.

    Author: Bobby Vinton
   

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long.

    Author: Bobby Vinton
   

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

    Author: Booker T. Washington
   

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

    Author: Boris Trajkovski
   

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

    Author: Brad Henry
   

No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy.

    Author: Brad Henry
   

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

    Author: Brad Sherman
   

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

    Author: Brigham Young
   

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

    Author: Brooks Atkinson
   

We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

    Author: Bruce Brown
   

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

    Author: Bryant H. McGill
   

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

    Author: Bryant H. McGill
   

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.

    Author: Burt Lancaster
   

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

    Author: Buzz Aldrin
   

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home.

    Author: C. Everett Koop
   

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

    Author: C. S. Lewis
   

The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.

    Author: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
   

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.

    Author: Carol Bellamy
   

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.

    Author: Carol Bellamy
   

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

    Author: Carol Bellamy
   

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

    Author: Carol Burnett
   

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

    Author: Carol Moseley Braun
   

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

    Author: Carol Moseley Braun
   

The mere imparting of information is not education.

    Author: Carter G. Woodson
   

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

    Author: Carter G. Woodson
   

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

    Author: Carter G. Woodson
   

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

    Author: Cate Blanchett
   

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

    Author: Cesar Chavez
   

African American children can't be educationally disadvantaged for 12 years and then experience a miracle cure when it comes time for admission into college.

    Author: Chaka Fattah
   

The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.

    Author: Chaka Fattah
   

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

    Author: Chanakya
    Topics: Education

It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

    Author: Charles Babbage
   

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

    Author: Charles Barkley
   

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

    Author: Charles Handy
   

An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.

    Author: Charles Kettering
   

Try not to have a good time... this is supposed to be educational.

    Author: Charles M. Schulz
   

I made education the highest priority of my campaign - actually education and jobs - and the reason is a simple one: I think the future of America depends on it.

    Author: Charles Schumer
   

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

    Author: Charles Schumer
   

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

    Author: Charles Stanley
   

I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.

    Author: Charles Tupper
   

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

    Author: Charles Tupper
   

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.

    Author: Charles Vest
   

Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.

    Author: Charles Vest
   

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