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title: "12 Best Educated Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norman-lear/the-american-people-may-not-be-the-best-educated-but-they-re-very/)

[Norman Lear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norman-lear/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ced/norman-lear-7597_american-people_the-american-people-may-not-be-the-best_306789.png)

> [We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-quayle/we-re-going-to-have-the-best-educated-american-people-in-the-world-2/)

[Dan Quayle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-quayle/)

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> [We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/we-are-dealing-with-the-best-educated-generation-in-history-but-they-2/)

[Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/)

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> [The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/helen-keller/the-best-educated-human-being-is-the-one-who-understands-most-about/)

[Helen Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/helen-keller/)

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> [I want to see Colombian youth become the best-educated in Latin America by 2025.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/juan-manuel-santos/i-want-to-see-colombian-youth-become-the-best-educated-in-latin/)

[Juan Manuel Santos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/juan-manuel-santos/)

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> [We're going to have the best educated American people in the world. People that are really very weird can get into sensitive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-w-bush/we-re-going-to-have-the-best-educated-american-people-in-the-world/)

[George W. Bush](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-w-bush/)

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> [I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-hoffer/i-can-never-forget-that-one-of-the-most-gifted-best-educated-nations/)

[Eric Hoffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-hoffer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e0/eric-hoffer-343_educated_i-can-never-forget-that-one-of-the-most_887563.jpg)

> [Clinton understands that in a competitive global economy we need the best-educated workforce in the world. She and I worked together on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/clinton-understands-that-in-a-competitive-global-economy-we-need-the/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/we-need-the-best-educated-workforce-in-the-world-hundreds-of/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They are a hundred times better educated than their grandparents, and ten times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/we-are-dealing-with-the-best-educated-generation-in-history-they-are/)

[Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/timothy-leary-2431_brain_we-are-dealing-with-the-best-educated-ge_1375726.png)

> [Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kofi-annan/young-people-with-their-dynamism-their-energy-and-their-inherent/)

[Kofi Annan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kofi-annan/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/kofi-annan-799_attainment_young-people-with-their-dynamism-their-e_1898769.jpg)

> [We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-leary/we-are-dealing-with-the-best-educated-generation-in-history-but-they/)

[Timothy Leary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-leary/)

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