#education

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education. ↗

— Ed Markey

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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

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We are not in Afghanistan for the sake of the education policy in a broken 13th-century country. We are there so the people of Britain and our global interests are not threatened. ↗

— Liam Fox

#britain #broken #country #education #global

I've never been a big believer in formal education. ↗

— Megan Fox

#believer #big #big believer #education #formal

We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

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What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#capabilities #educational #faculties #happens #innate

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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