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Education

Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself. – Michael Moore

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it. – Piers Anthony

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods. – Edward Thorndike

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. – Norman Douglas

The value of a good education has never left me. – Michelle Pfeiffer

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education. – Julie Bowen

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. – Jon Huntsman, Jr.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. – Gwendolyn Brooks

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. – Polly Toynbee

My votes against the education bill and my votes against the Medicare bill got huge play at home. – Mike Pence

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking. – William Godwin

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions. – William Godwin

My mother is a professor of early childhood education. When I was two she would say she knew I was going to be an actor. – Matt Damon

Education is the cornerstone of our communities and our country. – Bill Frist

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? – Frederic Bastiat

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare? – Susan George

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better. – Wendell Phillips

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently. – Gavin Newsom

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education. – Gwen Moore

But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students. – Roy Barnes