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Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.

Violent can be sound and light in waking us from sleep of night. Gently comes the dawn's twilight Each step taken oh so slight.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life. Barbara Hoberman Levine, Your Body Believes Every Word You Say Learning to love and accept ourselves is basic to human education. So is learning to language emotion in a positive way. Ultimately when we learn to truly love and accept ourselves, we'll be able to live well and love each other and every thing we encounter. -Doc Childre.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. -Galileo Galilei.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.

Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. -Michael Faraday.

The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.

Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men,--the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

The world is run by C students.

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. -Angela Schwindt.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.

How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which...90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our "pocket of excellence" is that 75% of students have learned to "critique tactfully?" -Barbara J. Alexander.

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. -Robert F. Goheen.

To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure. -Joseph Joubert.