“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
— Evan Esar
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“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
— Evan Esar
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“I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.”
— Michele Bachmann
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“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.”
— Jacques Barzun
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“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”
— Booker T. Washington
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“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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“But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.”
— Kathy Ireland
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.”
— Wendell Phillips
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“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.”
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.”
— Wendell Phillips
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“In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.”
— Walter Annenberg
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