Further Education Quotes

• To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Country, Lying

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

  John Dewey

  Education, Social Justice, Process

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

  Charles Kennedy

  Struggle, Opportunity, Should Have

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• I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

  Marc Garneau

  Engineering, Years, Navy

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• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Giving, World

  Jane Austen (2007). “The Complete Novels of Jane Austen”, p.477, Wordsworth Editions

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• I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.

  Edmund Barton

  Should

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• I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

  Helen McCrory

  Radio, University

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.

  John Bruton

  Country, Moving, Rights

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• It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

  Dhirubhai Ambani

  Inspirational, Son, Growth

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