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“The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.”

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Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

Source: On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions

“Education! Is it education to teach the young that their chances of happiness depend on being richer than their neighbors? Yet that is what it all tends to. Get on! - be successful!”

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Book:A Romance of Two Worlds

Source: A Romance of Two Worlds

“Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.”

“The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.”

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Author:John H. Sununu

“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”

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Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.”

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Author:Joseph Stalin

“All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.”

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle