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“No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.”

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Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010. He was the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 2007 and a key figure in the Labour government. Born on February 20, 1951, and deceased on March 19, 2010, Brown was a significant political figure in the UK. more

“Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.”

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Author:Mirabeau B. Lamar

“To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.”

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Book:A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations

Source: A Library of Universal Literature in Four Parts, Comprising Science, Biography, Fiction and the Great Orations

“Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961

“In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962

“Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.”

“In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.”

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Author:Barack Obama

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