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Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country. -- Bill Frist
Yahoo! is dedicated to promoting community awareness through outreach, education and information access. -- David Filo
The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities. -- Leonard Boswell
Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard. -- Luis Fortuno
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. -- Marian Wright Edelman
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. -- Sam Houston
School is something that you learn - reading and writing. Education is what you learn from the family, from the environment, from the community. -- Bunker Roy
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. -- Marian Wright Edelman
One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so. -- Christine Gregoire
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.' -- Donald Bren
The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was. -- Ken Robinson
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
Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch. -- Jen Kirkman
I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more. -- Jon Secada
There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt. -- Jehane Noujaim
Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education. -- Arne Duncan
Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography. -- Matt Mullenweg
I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. -- Richard Cobden
In any community there's a strong pull home. People want to return, see their community get better economically and socially. You can build those community-grown opportunities for the kids who've graduated from college to return home, to provide businesses and support things going on. It'll only happen through education. -- Denise Juneau
Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education, -- Eduardo J. Padron
It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education. -- Adam Braun
You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community. -- Alan Autry
The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community. -- Norman Cousins
Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education. -- Alice Waters
I definitely want to focus on economic development, because that is what is needed in the community, as well as education. -- Jose Peralta
Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community. -- Rudolf Virchow
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community. -- Desmond Tutu
The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself. -- Sharad Vivek Sagar
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. -- Thomas Perez
Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as community entrepreneurship. -- Donald Bren
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem. -- Albert Einstein
Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both. -- Jill Biden
Meaningful student involvement is the process of engaging students as partners in every facet of school change for the purpose strengthening their commitment to education, community & democracy. -- Adam Fletcher
There may be frugality which is not economy. A community, that withholds the means of education from its children, withholds the bread of life and starves their souls. -- Horace Mann
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere. -- Mark Foley

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