“I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.”
— Julian Bond
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“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible – my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.”
— Anna Friel
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“The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.”
— Samuel Richardson
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“We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!”
— Alan Hansen
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“I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.”
— Spike Lee
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“I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.”
— Charles Kennedy
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“An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.”
— Alan K. Simpson
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“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.”
— James Madison
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“Freedom can occur only through education.”
— Friedrich Schiller
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“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.”
— John Updike
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“It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.”
— William J. Clinton
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