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Education

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth. – Wangari Maathai

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism. – John O. Brennan

You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger. – Drew Brees

Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on. – Anthony Weiner

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. – Danny Glover

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. – Alan Perlis

I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work. – Julian Bond

We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy. – Bob Taft

Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are – the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America. – Henry Bonilla

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans. – Ron Lewis

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students. – Ron Lewis

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. – Ulrich Beck

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now. – Dominic Cooper

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly. – Dominic Cooper

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan. – Hamid Karzai

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education. – Joschka Fischer

When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens. – Michael Badnarik

Education liberates a woman. – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. – John Sterling

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you. – Amber Tamblyn