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“Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.”

Ifs Book Education College Gains College Education

Author:LL Cool J

“They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.”

Want Trying Littles Education College Gains Score Little Knowledge Off To College

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.”

“The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.”

Men Heart May Book Lost Cities Education Gains Humble Yearning Burned Humble Man

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7

“In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.”

Littles Self Education Youth Gains Recreation Ostentation

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne

“To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.”

Ifs Happens Jobs Education Theory Citizens Equal Gains Majority Access Treated Revolutionary Decent Killers Ideologues

Author:Ian Buruma

“You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.”

Needs Matter Opportunity Chance Education Class Middle Skills Gains Middle Class Gateways Middle Class Life

Author:Barack Obama

“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.”

Ends School Loses Education Dog Gains Educational Pet Jail Tails Feeding Schools And Education School Education Students And Education Related To Education School Time

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

“Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that you ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.”

Men Trying Two Opportunity Interest Attention Education Wise Dangerous Habit Men And Women Gains Monsters Indifference Inattention

Author:Robert Andrews Millikan

“Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!”

Years Children Two School Next Opportunity Hours Education Quality Focus Gains Educational Access Two Years Formal Improving Literacy Formal Education Unicef School Hours

Author:Roger Moore

“Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.”

Humans Self Helping Reality Interest Human Beings Views Education Students Gains Independent Relate Reality Of Life Self Reliant

Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

“To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.”

Has Beens Made Today Education Students Gains Excellence Access Divided Crucial Continuing Privileged Equity Incomplete

Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995

“It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

Mother Suffering Father Heaven Education Sorrow Gains Motherhood Acquire Toil Fortitude Our Father Tribulation

Author:Orson F. Whitney