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"One of the greatest gifts adults can give -- to their offspring and to their
society -- is to read to children."
-- Carl
Sagan *
Our
species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding
of how the world works.
-- Carl
Sagan
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In
every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the
reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community
spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this
may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
-- Carl
Sagan
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Imparting
education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the
teachers, the parents, the friends.
-- Amartya
Sen |  |
we must go on fighting
for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content
of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education
into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.
-- Amartya
Sen
The elimination
of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is)
to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom
to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are
of importance on their own
-- Amartya
Sen
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*
"We
know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they have
to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their
studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents."
-- Shakira
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Education is what
survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B. F. Skinner
The great aim
of education is not knowledge but action.
-- Herbert Spencer
"The illiterate of the 21st
centurywill not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn."
-- Alvin Toffler
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What makes me angry? The
education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning
society the way we teach our kids?
-- Kathleen Turner
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| Because there
is global insecurity, nations are engaged in a mad arms race, spending billions
of dollars wastefully on instruments of destruction, when millions are starving.
And yet, just a fraction of what is extended so obscenely on defense budgets would
make a real difference in enabling God's children to fill their stomachs, be educated,
and be given the chance to lead fulfilled and happy lives.
-- Desmond
Tutu |  |
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"Teaching kids how to feed
themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education."
-- Alice Waters
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"To have a peaceful
population, we must teach peace."
-- Cora
Weiss |  |
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Education
and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
-- Paul Wellstone
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*
"I
fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the
way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change
the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures."
-- Kanye
West |
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Only that education deserves
emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how
to begin to think.
-- Mary
Wollstonecraft |
“Education
is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and
the power to appreciate life.”
-- Brigham Young
"Literacy
arouses hopes, not only in society as a whole but also in the individual who is
striving for fulfilment, happiness and personal benefit by learning how to read
and write. Literacy... means far more than learning how to read and write... The
aim is to transmit... knowledge and promote social participation."
-- UNESCO
Institute for Education, Hamburg
