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If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not

If we help an educated mans daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers? – Virginia Woolf

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Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England. – Virginia Woolf

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But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. – Virginia Woolf

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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I give the children education. – Jackie Chan

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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The willingness to learn new skills is very high. – Angela Merkel

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Of all the public services, education is the one Im most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and its morally right. – George Osborne

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Education has fundamentally changed my life. Its perhaps the mission of my life. Im wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina. – Bev Perdue

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God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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