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“Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.”

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Author:James Heckman

“I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.”

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Author:Umberto Eco

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

“Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you.”

“You teach kids how to succeed when they successfully foil the educational system.”

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Author:Arlo Guthrie

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.”

“For centuries, humans have said to horses, 'You do what I tell you or I'll hurt you.' Humans still say that to each other -- still threaten, force and intimidate. I'm convinced that my discoveries with horses have value in the workplace, in the educational and penal systems, and in the raising of children. At heart, I'm saying that no one else has the right to say 'you must' to an animal -- or to another human.”

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Author:Monty Roberts

“An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

Author:Albert Einstein

“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

“The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.”

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Book:Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change

Source: Einstein's Violin: A Conductor's Notes on Music, Physics, and Social Change

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

“Home is where one starts from.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”

Source: The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General

“Education is all a matter of building bridges.”

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Book:Going to the Territory

Source: Going to the Territory

“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.”

“The Eeyore Educational System sees childhood as a waste of time, a luxury that society cannot afford . . . Put children in school at the earliest age possible; load them down with homework; take away their time, their creativity, their play, their power; then plug them into machines.”

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Author:Benjamin Hoff

“These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation.”

Source: Competitiveness and innovation on the Committee's 50th anniversary with Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft: hearing before the Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, March 12, 2008

“Every artist was first an amateur.”

Source: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”

“May I suggest that you write, that you keep journals, that you express your thoughts on paper. Writing is a great discipline. It is a tremendous educational effort. It will assist you in various ways, and you will bless the lives of many-your families and others-now and in the years to come, as you put on paper some of your experiences and some of your musings.”

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Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.”

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Author:Herbert Ratner

“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations”

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Author:J. William Fulbright

“A greater national focus on the criticality of educational equity is needed in order to mobilize the masses and invite everyone to be a part of the solution. Only when every person on the street realizes the role she can play in this movement, can we begin to change the conversations around education.”

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Author:Shaheen Mistri

“We are wiser than we know.”

Knows Educational Frustrated Wiser

Book:Emerson: Selected Essays

Source: Emerson: Selected Essays

“I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the hurry? I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy.”

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Author:Magda Gerber

“Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.”

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Author:Oliver DeMille

“Where knowledge ends... feeling and imagination begin.”

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Author:Neville Goddard

“Imagination is the source of all human achievement.”

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Author:Ken Robinson

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.”

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Author:Groucho Marx

“We developed at the local school district level probably the best public school system in the world. Or it was until the Federal government added Federal interference to Federal financial aid and eroded educational quality in the process.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.”

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Author:Malcolm Wallop

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

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Author:Evan Esar

“You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.”

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Author:Gore Vidal

“If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business.”

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Leave the dude alone and he'll figure it out.”

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”

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Author:Euripides

“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.”

“There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.”

Walking Educational Cliffs

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at all can find expression in our controlled media and educational systems. Forget about wholesale culture- or civilization-critics like Marxists. Universities have to be purged of any "radicalism" that can see through to the roots of issues and pathologies, for the same reasons that workers have to have nascent unions aborted among them and contrarian newspapers and media have to be starved of advertising.”

“A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.”

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Author:Paul Simon

“Let's face it: Serious self-scrutiny has not been one of our notable characteristics. We are far more aware of what we want to change in others than we are of how we need to change. Salvation for our educational ills is only secondarily "out there." Primarily it will have to come from within an educational community willing to say that we have met the enemy and it is us.”

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Author:Seymour Sarason

“In my opinion, the United States and many Western nations have a financial disaster coming, caused by our educational system’s failure to adequately provide a realistic financial education program for students.”

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Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.”