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Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

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But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. ↗

— Zoltan Kodaly

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By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not. ↗

— Kiana Tom

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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. ↗

— George Weinberg

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Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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