Good Education Quotes - Page 2

• The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

  Joycelyn Elders

  World, Sexuality, Contraceptives

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• A good education is a stepping-stone to wealth.

  Helen Keller

  Education, Stones, Wealth

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• There's a very close tie between good health and good education.

  Laura Bush

  Ties, Good Health

  "The First Lady's Quiet Victory". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• Good education has got to be good entertainment.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Entertainment, Be Good

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• A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

  Plato

  Knowing, Dancing, Wells

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• A good education prepares you well for anything.

  Marv Levy

  Wells

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. December 24, 2004.

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• Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jobs, People, Important

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• Nothing is more important than a good education.

  Roy Wilkins

  Important, Importance

  Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult

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• I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

  Howard Zinn

  Book, Opportunity, People

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.203, Beacon Press

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• Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system.

  Bill Gates

  Running, Dream, Opportunity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

  Diane Ravitch

  Children, School, Curriculum

  Diane Ravitch (2011). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.118, Basic Books

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• Mom put a note in my lunch again, I see... Dear son, I hope you will study hard in summer school... Do not look upon it as a punishment, but rather as a privilege... We are very proud of you, and want you to have a good education. This note will self-destruct in five seconds.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Summer, Mom, School

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• A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Threatening, Certain

  Source: progressive.org

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• Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an apple tree. I just don't believe you. And so this pursuit of position and money and power, they are all wrapped up into one package that I think is crippling, debilitating and limiting. And unfortunately, people get sucked into it and then they've got you on the treadmill. You know: ''You've got to have a good job'' and "You've got to have a good education'' - which is another word for indoctrination. We're never going to rise above these limitations we've placed on ourselves.

  George Carlin

  Jobs, Believe, Men

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• I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Jobs, Hard Work, School

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• Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

  Barack Obama

  Children, School, College

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

  Ray Dalio

  Real, Men, Play

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• I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares which they could afford, a good education and a health service.

  Melita Norwood

  People, Ordinary, Cost

  Quoted in the New York Times, 13 September 1999. Treason for health care! Why did the USSR's spies never seem to know anything true about the USSR?

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• Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that I'm describing in the book. It's more or less the same. How come in a free country? He has two sentences, which are pretty accurate. One, he says, the press is owned by wealthy men who have every reason not to want certain ideas to be expressed. And second - and I think this is much more important - a good education instills in you the intuitive understanding that there are certain things it just wouldn't do to say.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Book, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement.

  Barack Obama

  Retirement, Kids, America

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

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• Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is an approach to life that involves planning almost without thinking about it. And men sustain this. I came from a northern grammar school. I had a good education, but I didn't have a good network.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  School, Men, Thinking

  "Breaking through the brass ceiling" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2011.

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• As for free education, universal medical care and other basic rights: Yes, people have to fight! Of course they have to. Free and good education is their right, no matter what advisors and 'experts' coming from the United States say.

  Andre Vltchek

  Fighting, People, Care

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Reality, Appreciate

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• I grew up in a very progressive family and with a great educational system, and I asked myself, 'Why doesn't everybody have these opportunities for a good education? So why not give back to these kids who didn't grow up with the same privileges I had?

  Erin Gruwell

  Growing Up, Educational, Kids

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