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Quotations on Education 109 Quotes Found The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school. I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities. If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. Education is the best provision for old age. Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. 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. It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions. Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science. 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. I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. 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. All real education is the architecture of the soul. The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene. If you're going to have a public subsidy to education, vouchers are clearly a better way of delivering it. They should result in some loosening up and privatization of the government school system. I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York. Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman. I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. 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. Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education. The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense. At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum. Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten. Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty. 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. Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too. Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. 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. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success. Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. Quite a few, actually, are involved in education. They have had the same experience Hanna and I had: when they started having their own kids, they didn't want them to have a poor educational experience; they wanted them to enjoy school. There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests. I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. Education is the art of making man ethical. You can expect to find these four priorities - education, economic vitality, efficiency in government and the protection of families - woven into my decisions as Governor. They will serve as my compass as I work with you to chart a future course for our state. I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do. 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. Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. The people of South and Central Texas and the Coastal Bend need jobs, they need health care, they need water infrastructure improvements, they need a quality education, and they need the resources to keep our borders safe and secure.
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