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  • The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

  • It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

    "Conducting Meaningful Interpretation: A Field Guide for Success". Book by Alan E. Wilkinson, p. 154, 2006.
  • Everyone who comes in is just amazed that our children do not have the animosity, the hatred, because these children are into it. You know, once you learn to like yourself, then you don't see this black-white bit. I still say that a good basic education is the only thing. I feel guilty sometimes because I don't think Jesus Christ could get any more accolades than I do when I walk through that classroom, even from the children I do not teach. They know that I love them, but I am forever telling them, "Get into that seat so you can have choices in this world."

    Source: reason.com
  • The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

    Education   War   Food  
    John Perkins (2004). “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.12, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
  • In absolutely every way, our lives are transformed by education and basic education in particular. So I would have thought that in any kind of system, to say that the priorities don't include education is a mistake, whether it's [at the] domestic level or at the global level.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons
  • Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.

    Two   Ignorant   Battle  
    "There’s a Good Reason Democrats Aren’t Opposing Every Trump Nominee Unanimously" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 27, 2017.
  • For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.

    Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations
  • Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

    ABC of Reading (1934) ch. 8
  • 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.

  • Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.

  • Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

    "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.
  • I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food.

    "An Interview With Master Chef, Wolfgang Puck". Interview with David Murphy, foodnservice.com. January 29, 2016.
  • Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

    Children   Block   Mean  
  • Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.178, Rajpal & Sons
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