#education

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#bible #college #college education #education #knowledge

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#education #freight #gone #man #may

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. ↗

— John Ruskin

#duty #education #first #food #fuel

Don't let your studies interfere with your education. ↗

— Henry Rutgers

#interfere #studies #your

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#believe #campuses #college #college campuses #controversial

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#any #areas #best #come #country

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system. ↗

— Donna Shalala

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I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer. ↗

— Jimmy Smits

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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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