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3 December 2020 Joseph Lancaster

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.

3 December 2020 Bob Riley

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

3 December 2020 Jeb Bush

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

3 December 2020 William Glasser

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.

3 December 2020 John Ruskin

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

3 December 2020 Abu Bakr

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

3 December 2020 Philip Pullman

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

3 December 2020 Paul Erdos

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

3 December 2020 Kamala Harris

I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.

3 December 2020 Callan McAuliffe

I don’t want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.

3 December 2020 Jerry Lewis

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don’t have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

3 December 2020 Danica McKellar

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

3 December 2020 Clyde Tombaugh

I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn’t see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education.

3 December 2020 Chaka Fattah

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

3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce

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

3 December 2020 Nicholas Negroponte

Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they… can never be without some element of education.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

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

3 December 2020 Mortimer Adler

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

3 December 2020 Allan Bloom

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

3 December 2020 Charles Barkley

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.

3 December 2020 Evander Holyfield

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn’t have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn’t complain. They didn’t murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

3 December 2020 Ryan White

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

3 December 2020 Judy Biggert

Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

3 December 2020 Estelle Morris

We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.

3 December 2020 Little Richard

It was a way out of poverty. It was a way to success. It was a way to education. And it was a way to a brighter day for me.

3 December 2020 Jenna Bush

I don’t think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.

3 December 2020 Reed Hastings

What’s got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

3 December 2020 Ann Bancroft

This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we’re committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.

3 December 2020 David Miliband

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

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