Secondary Education Quotes

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

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• Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.

  Mira Sorvino

  Education, Children, Thinking

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• I believe primary and secondary education is the bedrock of any sustainable society.

  Nita Ambani

  Believe, Bedrock, Primaries

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• Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Character, School

  Martin Luther King (1992). “The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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  Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

  Horace Mann

  Education, Men, Balance

  Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669

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• With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Inspiring, Technology, Generations

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• We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.

  Thomas Friedman

  Art, Technology, Average

  Source: theislamicmonthly.com

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• If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that in four years, I will get more Americans, as many as I possibly can, the opportunity and access to some form of post-secondary education. I want more of them to graduate high school with the skill-set of post-secondary education and I want more of them to be able to obtain that post-secondary education. This is the only way we are going to close the income gap.

  Thomas Friedman

  Running, School, Opportunity

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• Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.

  Paul Farmer

  Should, Access, Primaries

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• As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

  Michael J. Fox

  Mom, Father, Clouds

  "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future". Book by Michael J. Fox, abcnews.go.com. April 13, 2010.

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• One way in which Americans have always been exceptional has been in our support for education. First we took the lead in universal primary education; then the “high school movement” made us the first nation to embrace widespread secondary education.

  Paul Krugman

  Education, School, Support

  "Ignorance Is Strength". www.nytimes.com. March 8, 2012.

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• We need university education in Fiji and must seriously think about starting post secondary education in Fiji. In the near future we hope to see a university college in Fiji and ultimately a fully fledged university

  A. D. Patel

  College, Thinking, Needs

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• In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

  Milton Friedman

  School, Kids, Problem

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.

  Milton Friedman

  School, Government, Views

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physical person and don't enjoy sitting at a desk all day. I just dragged myself through GCSE and A Levels, so it suited me very much to go on to drama school, which was very active.

  Amanda Burton

  Drama, School, Sitting

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• When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

  Billy Joel

  Musician, Young, Pursue

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