Richard Sherman: I don't think college athletes are given enough...

Quote	I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.' Copy
Author	Richard Sherman
Category	Education
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Quote: Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Author:
Will Durant
Category:
Education

Sixty years ago I...

Quote: 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.
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Author:
Barack Obama
Category:
Education

Cutting the deficit by...

Quote: Immigration is not the top issue for Latinos. Latinos are like every other American - economy, jobs, healthcare, education.
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Author:
Eva Longoria
Category:
Education

Immigration is not the...

Quote: One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.
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Author:
Michelle Bachelet
Category:
Education

One of the factors...

Quote: 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.
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Author:
Bill Vaughan
Category:
Education

Economists report that a...

Quote: The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.
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Author:
William Temple
Category:
Education

The most influential of...

Quote: Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
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Author:
Edward Everett
Category:
Education

Education is a better...

Quote: Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Author:
Amos Bronson Alcott
Category:
Education

Observation more than books...

Quote: To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
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Author:
Caroline Kennedy
Category:
Education

To the extent that...

Quote: The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.
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Author:
Hank Johnson
Category:
Education

The rising costs of...

Quote: Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you.
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Author:
Caster Semenya
Category:
Education

Education is the key....

Quote: He who laughs most, learns best.
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Author:
John Cleese
Category:
Education

He who laughs most,...

Quote: To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Author:
Edmund Burke
Category:
Education

To read without reflecting...

Quote: The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave.
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Author:
Rick Santorum
Category:
Education

The Obama administration now...

Quote: Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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Author:
Noam Chomsky
Category:
Education

Education must provide the...

Quote: While NCLB drove important progress on transparency and data disaggregation, I think it's clear that the status quo in public education is not working for our kids or our country.
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Author:
Michael Bennet
Category:
Education

While NCLB drove important...

Quote: Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.
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Author:
Patty Murray
Category:
Education

Good education means learning...

Quote: I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.
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Author:
Jimmy Smits
Category:
Education

I am a firm...

Quote: Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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Author:
Camille Paglia
Category:
Education

Now that virtually every...

Quote: When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.
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Author:
Bill Gates
Category:
Education

When you revolutionize education,...

Quote: 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. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
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Author:
Fannie Farmer
Category:
Education

I certainly feel that...

Quote: I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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Author:
William Glasser
Category:
Education

I think it is...

Quote: In every new generation, the impulses supposed to have been rooted out by discipline in the child break forth again when the struggle for existence - of the individual in society, of the society in the life of the state - begins. These passions are not transformed by the prevalent education of the day, but only repressed.
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Author:
Ellen Key
Category:
Education

In every new generation,...

Quote: 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.
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Author:
Charles Barkley
Category:
Education

Poor people cannot rely...

Quote: The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame; it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.
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Author:
Alphonso Jackson
Category:
Education

The dream doesn't lie...

Quote: I know kids are supposed to go through these awkward stages, but I just never even thought about that. I was too busy worrying about getting my education while I was working.
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Author:
Kirsten Dunst
Category:
Education

I know kids are...

Quote: The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.
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Author:
Fidel Castro
Category:
Education

The equal right of...

Quote: By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
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Author:
Bill Gates
Category:
Education

By 2018, an estimated...

Quote: I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Author:
Carl Sagan
Category:
Education

I am often amazed...

Quote: All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Author:
Gary Johnson
Category:
Education

All I suggest is...

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