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You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.
Jeff Foxworthy

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
Hillary Clinton

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.
Hillary Clinton

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope

History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas Sowell

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
Louis L'Amour

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.
Alan Greenspan

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Barney Frank

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Isaac Asimov

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois

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