Rick Perry: Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult...

Quote	Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. Copy
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Quote: We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
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Author:
Maria Montessori
Category:
Education

We cannot create observers...

Quote: In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.
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Author:
Stephen Covey
Category:
Education

In school, many of...

Quote: When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
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Author:
Ai Weiwei
Category:
Education

When you have strict...

Quote: There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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Author:
Malala Yousafzai
Category:
Education

There are many problems,...

Quote: It is really important that we promote competitive support in schools. It is very important that we recognise that has to be underpinned by good quality physical education and by getting people into patterns of exercise.
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Author:
Sebastian Coe
Category:
Education

It is really important...

Quote: It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
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Author:
Jean Piaget
Category:
Education

It is with children...

Quote: When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty.
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Author:
Winnie Byanyima
Category:
Education

When men and women,...

Quote: I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
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Author:
Al McGuire
Category:
Education

I think everyone should...

Quote: Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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Author:
W. E. B. Du Bois
Category:
Education

Education and work are...

Quote: Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
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Author:
Bobby Unser
Category:
Education

Desire! That's the one...

Quote: I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
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Author:
David McCullough
Category:
Education

I just thank my...

Quote: 'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
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Author:
Alexander Pope
Category:
Education

'Tis education forms the...

Quote: Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.
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Author:
John McCain
Category:
Education

Americans want jobs. They...

Quote: I'm not a big fan of journalism schools, except those that are organized around a liberal arts education. Have an understanding of history, economics and political science - and then learn to write.
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Author:
Tom Brokaw
Category:
Education

I'm not a big...

Quote: One of the greatest obstacles to escaping poverty is the staggering cost of higher education.
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Author:
Chris Van Hollen
Category:
Education

One of the greatest...

Quote: I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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Author:
Kamala Harris
Category:
Education

I believe that a...

Quote: It is not systematic education which somehow molds society, but, on the contrary, society which, according to its particular structure, shapes education in relation to the ends and interests of those who control the power in that society.
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Author:
Paulo Freire
Category:
Education

It is not systematic...

Quote: The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Author:
Herbert Spencer
Category:
Education

The great aim of...

Quote: A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.
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Author:
Charles Kuralt
Category:
Education

A country so rich...

Quote: As early as 1681-82, a group of Abenakis had accompanied the French explorer La Salle on his historic voyage down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. By 1700, many Abenaki and Iroquois Indians spoke French and had some European education, and some were literate in French and Latin.
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Author:
Adrienne Mayor
Category:
Education

As early as 1681-82,...

Quote: I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.
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Author:
Alice Waters
Category:
Education

I really am at...

Quote: The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
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Author:
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Category:
Education

The true purpose of...

Quote: If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
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Author:
Sargent Shriver
Category:
Education

If education does not...

Quote: We have lots of evidence that putting investments in early childhood education, even evidence from very hard-nosed economists, is one of the very best investments that the society can possibly make. And yet we still don't have public support for things like preschools.
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Author:
Alison Gopnik
Category:
Education

We have lots of...

Quote: The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
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Author:
Jodi Rell
Category:
Education

The best math lesson...

Quote: Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.
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Author:
Jameela Jamil
Category:
Education

Sometimes life limits your...

Quote: Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
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Author:
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Category:
Education

Thoughtful education programs and...

Quote: I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
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Author:
Al Green
Category:
Education

I learned more stuff...

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: If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
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Author:
Heinrich Heine
Category:
Education

If the Romans had...

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