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'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined. ↗

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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward. ↗

— John Pople

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The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?' ↗

— Terry Prachett

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'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger. ↗

— Terry Prachett

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I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

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American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. ↗

— Diane Ravitch

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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. ↗

— Jodi Rell

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Education enables people and societies to be what they can be. ↗