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If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education. -- Murray Warmath
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. -- Spike Lee
I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature. -- Jonathan Kellerman
Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education. -- Ringo Starr
That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools. -- Michelle Rhee
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man. -- Chick Corea
I've learned so much through life. Starting off in Asia, the cultures, the people you meet, the poverty you see. It's been a great education for me, and I've loved every minute of it. -- Vijay Singh
As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children. -- Alma Adams
Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right. -- Bill Gates
There are really only two ways to teach. You can inspire the student to voluntarily and enthusiastically choose to do the hard work necessary to get a great education, or you can attempt to require it of him. -- Oliver DeMille
Moral values have been thrown out the window. Christianity is out the window. And that's wrong. Parents should be at home, teaching kids right from wrong, making sure they get a great education so they can be a success in life. -- Albert Belle
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Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one. -- Bill Gates
Find a model of great education in history and you will find a great teacher who inspired students to make the hard choice to study. Wherever you find such a teacher, you will also find self-motivated students who study hard. When students study hard, learning occurs. -- Oliver DeMille
I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns. ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun. -- George Saunders
Personally, I had a great education. My mum was a trained teacher, a Montessori teacher, and I know that I could not have written 'Eragon' if I had gone into a public school system because I would have just been too busy attending classes and doing homework - I wouldn't have had the time to write. -- Christopher Paolini
The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective. -- John Katzman
Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list! -- Kim Richards
I think the president can set a tone and say we're not divided by gender, age, race. We're all Americans and want the same things. We want the best things for our kids. We want the rules to be fair. If they work hard, get a great education, they should be able to join the middle class. -- Bobby Jindal
My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and I have a better worldview now, and so I think I grew up in an incredibly privileged position. The town I grew up in is beautiful. I got a great education, and I'm very grateful for it. -- Anne Hathaway
My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up. -- Michelle Rhee
I think great businessmen are more likely made than born. I don't know if it's from your upbringing, your parental background, the struggles you go through. In my own particular situation, I left school at 15 and I was struggling to survive in the jungle and that was a great education. So I think just getting out there, hands on, learning to survive teaches you a lot. -- Richard Branson
Opportunity starts with a great education. -- Auliq Ice
I believe education is the great equalizer. -- Dave Heineman
Education is the great engine to personal development. -- Nelson Mandela
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. -- Herbert Spencer
Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, -- Eduardo J. Padron
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. -- George Santayana
Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects. -- Adam Smith
There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. -- Ezra Cornell
Education is the great equalizer, and shouldn't be limited to the wealthiest few. -- Jim Clyburn
Education is not solely about earning a great living. It means living a great life. -- Brad Henry
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education. -- William James
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Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer. -- Alphonso Jackson
To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. -- John Buchan
The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus -- Bill Bryson
Education will equip you to do something worthwhile in the great world of opportunity that lies ahead. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge. -- Susan Rice
The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations. -- Martin H. Fischer
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education. -- Laurence Housman
I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great. -- Jill Stein
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. -- William James
Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education. -- Gina Capaldi
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound. -- Dennis Prager
I was sent successively to schools in France, Italy and Bavaria, and this erratic education was a great help afterwards. -- Vivien Leigh
Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without... -- Kofi Annan
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. -- Bertrand Russell
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound -- Dennis Prager
And I'm supposed to believe that Reagan was a great leader? This is who he chose as the Secretary of Education... -- William Bennett
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. -- Thomas Sowell
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country. -- Winston Churchill
The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots. -- Vincent Massey
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society. -- Gaston Caperton
Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. -- Lynn Swann
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Her (India's) great curse is caste; but English education has already proved a tremendous power in levelling the injurious distinctions of caste. -- Keshub Chandra Sen
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great. -- Michel de Montaigne
True education is awakening a love for truth...opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. -- David O. McKay
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really. -- Dalai Lama
The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down. -- Edwin Chadwick
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. -- Samuel Richardson
My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa. -- Paul Anka
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. -- Horace Mann
Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. -- Ron Lewis
Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts. -- John Lancaster Spalding
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. -- Napoleon Hill
I think that when the education system started to be dismantled during the first Great Depression in the 1930s, we didn't recover from that. -- Wynton Marsalis
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. -- James E. Rogers
We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. -- Ryan White
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. -- Benjamin Disraeli
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am. -- K.K. Raghava
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better -- Edsger Dijkstra
We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools. -- Kenneth C. Griffin
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status. -- William H. McRaven
Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits. -- Jeff Greene
There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. -- Jane Austen
The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents. -- Carly Fiorina
Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. -- John Adams
No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy. -- Brad Henry
What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'? -- Ellen Key
I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish. -- Kevin Nealon
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. -- John H. Johnson
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress. -- William Law
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power. -- Jon Meacham
You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education. -- Walter Isaacson

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