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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
Kathleen Blanco
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain
Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.
Charles Dickens
Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.
Kahlil Gibran
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
Memory, joy, are intuitions; and even mathematical propositions become intuitions, for education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
Blaise Pascal
All I have learned, I learned from books.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Al McGuire
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
Peter Brimelow
I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
Lech Walesa
Nature has always had more force than education.
Voltaire
Education is for growth and fulfillment.
Tom Robbins
I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.
Major Owens
It is possible that the Supreme Court itself may overturn its abortion rulings. We need only recall that in Brown v. Board of Education the court reversed its own earlier separate-but-equal decision.
Ronald Reagan
What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.
Dudley Ryder
