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Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training. -- Melissa Gilbert
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. -- David Amram
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education. -- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment. -- Nelson Mandela
Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair. -- Marilynne Robinson
Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both. -- Susan Jacoby
Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional. -- Dean Kamen
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. -- Christopher Hitchens
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means. -- Barbara Walters
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. -- Thomas Sowell
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it. -- Danica McKellar
I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. -- Joel Coen
Being the lead of the show and working a lot of hours - all good stuff, a tremendous education, incredible opportunity, it changed my life - it was a marathon, and by the end of it I was pretty beat. -- James Van Der Beek
Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education. -- James L Hymes
Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free). -- Rick Perlstein
The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine. -- Adolf Hitler
We need innovation in education and dedication to the task before us. -- Alan Autry
Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems. -- Roy Barnes
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. -- Charles B. Rangel
It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history. -- Eugene Jarecki
The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us. -- Adam Davidson
Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education. -- William Godwin
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. -- Maria Montessori
Something happens to our creativity as we go through the education process; most of us lose touch with it. -- Anthony Browne
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. -- Horace Mann
Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together. -- Greg Mortenson
There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. -- James Truslow Adams
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. -- Nancy Astor
Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state. -- John Hoeven
A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. -- John Lubbock
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. -- Jean Giraudoux
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy. -- Kamisese Mara
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. -- Christy Turlington
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion. -- Neil Postman
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
Career Education is one of the largest global providers in the higher education sector. We are projecting to be over $1.1 billion in revenue in 2003, which puts us number one in our sector for onsite education and number two for online education in terms of revenue. -- John Larson
Education made us what we are. -- Claude Adrien Helvetius
Education illuminates us with the lights of knowledge and wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha
Education is not success but it is to help us succeed. -- T. B. Joshua
...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty. -- Plato
I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do. -- Christian Slater
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. -- Gail Caldwell
Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated. -- Rick Warren
Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow. -- Bel Kaufman
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty. -- Charles B. Rangel
A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it -- Mike Rose
We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it. -- Robert M. Hutchins
Education helps us to grow wings of imagination that allow us to feel free and fly. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. -- Oscar Wilde
Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity -- Thomas Jefferson
Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us -- Norman Cousins
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest form of education teaches us to find the truth by searching with love, harmony, and gratitude. -- Debasish Mridha
True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom. -- Debasish Mridha
Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us. -- Evelyn Boyd Granville
My parents always told us, you know, you have to get your education. You're not supposed to become a statistic. -- Venus Williams
Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour. -- David Livingstone
The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. -- Rabindranath Tagore
If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters. -- Franz Kafka
Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education. -- Paul Zane Pilzer
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes. -- Plato
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track. -- Emile Zola
One of the main goals of self-education is to eradicate that vanity in us without which we would never have been educated. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day. -- Bryant H. McGill
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform. -- Andy Hargreaves
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. -- Michael Moore
Education is the light which lets us see the universe in a better way. It often lets us understand her incredible beauty. -- Debasish Mridha
A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. -- John Lubbock
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. -- Dick Gephardt
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
Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education. -- Nicky Gumbel
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. -- Ralph Adams Cram
Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy. -- Martin Bormann
We must change the system of education and instruction. Unfortunately, history has shown us that brotherhood must be learned, when it should be natural. -- Josephine Baker
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be â??wrongâ??, which is what our education encourages us to believe. -- Keith Johnstone
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks. -- Bruce Schneier
Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education. -- Juan Manuel Marquez
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. -- Dennis Quaid
An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer -- Mahatma Gandhi
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
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. -- Thabo Mbeki
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with. -- Wendy Davis
Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans. -- Peter Marshall
One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire. -- John Dewey
Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care. -- Howard Baker
The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market. -- Robert Stempel
Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership. -- Wangari Maathai
I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives. -- David Batstone
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works. -- Mike Easley
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education. -- Thomas Carlyle
Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works. -- Mike Easley
We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education, -- Joe Hockey
Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our education should be such as to improve our minds and fit us for increased usefulness; to make us of greater service to the human family. -- Brigham Young
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not important. -- Nadeem Aslam
In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school! -- Milton Friedman
We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes. -- J. Irwin Miller
The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland! -- Christopher Titus
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education. -- Alexander Wang
Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy. -- Joycelyn Elders
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead, at the best, clever children of all ages. -- Richard Mitchell
The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else. -- Max Muller
Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery. -- Zhang Xin
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education. -- Richard Dawkins
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. -- Stephen Downes
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure of us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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