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“Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Pay Education Fields College Teenager Runners Homecoming Open Fields

Author:Will Rogers

“History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.”

Wells May Education Liberty Records Fields Program Bills Saved Crash Forerunners

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.”

Stills Two Stories Jobs Easy Black President Education Hell Week Fields College Died African American Black Women Two Weeks

Author:Johnnetta B. Cole

“Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.”

Able Order Education Fields Sells Possession Acquire Academic Pearls Academic Work

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“A society that does not give importance to education cannot progress. Let there be any Government, it must have a vision to make India shine in the field of education.”

Giving Doe Government Education Vision Progress Fields India Importance Shining

Author:Narendra Modi

“The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.”

“Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.”

Ideas Form Education Events Fields Adults Contact Plus Chemistry Experimentation Adult Education

Author:Felix Morley

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learning is good in and of itself...the mothers of the Jewish ghettoes of the east would pour honey on a book so the children would know that learning is sweet. And the parents who settled hungry Kansas would take their children in from the fields when a teacher came.”

Knows Children Book Mother Parent Education Teacher Fields Sweet East Hungry Honey Kansas

Author:George H. W. Bush

“... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit.”

Ideas Soul Spirit Education Moral Teaching Fields Ignorance Holy Advantage Wide Chains Holy Spirit Capability Alas Binding Fetters Scientific Knowledge Early Education

Author:Maria W. Stewart

“The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.”

“Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.”

Levels Education Fields Competition Educational Allowing Playing Fields

Author:Joyce Meyer

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

“A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.”

Mind Science Education Fields Bears Fruit Instruction Fertile Cultivation

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero