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“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”

Knows Littles Education Knowledge Doubt Increase Doubted When In Doubt

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.”

Ideas Education Conscious Increase Relation Developing Unconscious Percentages

Author:Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.”

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Author:Kenneth Keniston

“The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.”

Giving Wealth Education India Increase Possession Supreme

Author:Narendra Modi

“No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.”

Should Opportunity Pay Education College Increase Denied Earning Inability College Education

Author:Bobby Scott

“The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.”

Firsts Two Ends Understanding Education Knowledge Increase Intelligence Educational Improvement Literacy Understanding Others Continuous Improvement

Author:John Locke

“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”

Inspirational Inspiring Education Wonder Knowledge Gratitude Increase Graduation

Author:Charles Morgan

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

Motivational Desire Business Education Knowledge Increase Riches Thirst Acquisition Desire For Knowledge Thirst For Knowledge Increasing Knowledge

Book:The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.”

“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”

Use Education Knowledge Teach Learning Increase Educational Proportion

Author:H. P. Blavatsky