#education

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ↗

— James A. Garfield

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Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. ↗

— Melinda Gates

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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

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My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

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One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. ↗

— Bill Lear

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If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

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I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. ↗

— Spike Lee

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