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'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
I have an education, I went to college, you know?
Nicole Polizzi
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.
Sandra Day O'Connor
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
Carol Moseley Braun
Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.
Bryant McGill
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
Edward Thorndike
For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.
Plato
Americans are a decade behind Canada when it comes to sex education and understanding their bodies.
Sue Johanson
Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.
Aldous Huxley
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.
Carter G. Woodson
I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
Philip Guedalla
we (modern society) make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C.S. Lewis
She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
Terry Pratchett
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
Clifford Stoll
America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.
Fareed Zakaria
Education liberates a woman.
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
Logan Pearsall Smith