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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mot

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in womens education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. – Antonia Fraser

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I think theres a tremendous split between people whove been through a war and people who havent. – Antonia Fraser

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State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes. – Arne Duncan

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The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see whats actually happening to our culture? – Hugh Mackay

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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education. – James Payn

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. – Theodore Roosevelt

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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim

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