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• Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton

  George III

  Country, Names, American Revolution

  'The King's Speech on Opening the Session' in 'Hansard' 18 November 1760, col. 942

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• The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

  Norman Lear

  Wise, Heart, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Might, Vote, Reason

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• An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Mean, Deeds, Firsts

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “Awakenings”

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• Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.

  Helen Fisher

  Interesting, Planets, Capable

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• Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that
  feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Christian, Buddhist, Real

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• No matter what your product is, you are ultimately in the education business. Your customers need to be constantly educated about the many advantages of doing business with you, trained to use your products more effectively, and taught how to make never-ending improvement in their lives.

  Robert G. Allen

  Business, Mlm, Marketing

  Robert G. Allen (2010). “Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I became an artist because of the possibility it gave me to develop in another way, because I didn't want to follow the same lines the others around me did. I was educated in the former German Democratic Republic, which meant that an individual figure had to be... like a soldier in the army.

  Georg Baselitz

  Army, Artist, Soldier

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• Educated: no. Stupid: yes.
  And when I say "stupid," I mean stupid fresh.

  Ad-Rock

  Stupid, Rap, Mean

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• I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

  Kathy Ireland

  Education, Learning, Looks

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• In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Education, Knowledge, Order

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• There is a small minority of well-educated people with relatively sensible views on economics, and an extremely tiny minority of economists with highly sensible views. Then there's everybody else. ... To win, a politician needs to please the median voter. It makes little difference if a few thousand economists think you a fool.

  Bryan Caplan

  Winning, Thinking, Views

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• Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the history of the world, where slaves have been educated for freedom by their task-masters?

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Practice, Two, Tasks

  William Lloyd Garrison, Bruce Rogers (1905). “The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison”

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• The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Humanity, Mastery

  "Biographical" by Joseph Stiglitz for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• Great art must proceed to precision and brevity. It presupposes the alert mind of an educated listener who, in a singleact of thinking, includes with every concept all associations pertaining to the complex.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Education, Art, Mind

  "Style and Idea".

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• Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

  Bell Hooks

  Challenges, Adults, Fiction

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't God's first choice for what I've done in China...I don't know who it was...it must have been a man...a well-educated man. I don't know what happened. Perhaps he died. Perhaps he wasn't willing...and God looked down...and saw Gladys Aylward...and God said, 'Well, she's willing.'

  Gladys Aylward

  Men, Choices, Done

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• For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

  Thomas More

  People, Suffering, Thieves

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.24, Bibliolis Books

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• The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Reality, Mind, Fiction

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.79, Macmillan

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• Before we tackle the gangs and the basic story, we have to make sure that we have liberated ourselves from how we have been educated and make sure we are coming from a spirituality of our own choosing.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Stories, Spirituality

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “The Heart of Social Change: How to Make a Difference in Your World”, p.43, PuddleDancer Press

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• You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.

  Homer Hickam

  Country, Teacher, Parent

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.146, Dell

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• But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.

  Nikola Tesla

  Powerful, Women, Civilization

  "When woman is boss". "Colliers" Magazine, January 30, 1926.

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• Educated fools; from uneducated schools.

  Curtis Mayfield

  School, Fool, Educated Fools

  Song: If There's Hell Below

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• My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Writing, School, Ties

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• A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was.   In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Jobs, School, Men

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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