Quote by Polly Toynbee
But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing e

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

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It is now possible to quantify peoples levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy. – Polly Toynbee

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Happiness
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Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP. – Polly Toynbee

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Happiness
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How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the worlds main religions? – Polly Toynbee

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A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue. – Phillip E. Johnson

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Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future. – Thad Cochran

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Education

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge. – Susie Bright

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Education

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. – Maya Angelou

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