Educated Quotes

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The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as… — Mahatma Gandhi
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is… — James A. Baldwin
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education… — Kathleen Blanco
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay
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… — Desmond Tutu
People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's! — Robert Browning
Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort will help ensure… — Craig R. Barrett
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least. — David P. Gardner
An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the… — William James
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I… — Moon Unit Zappa
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a… — Jacques Barzun
We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and comets inside us. We are born able to sing to birds… — Robert R. McCammon
The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. — Alben W. Barkley
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with… — Henry Ward Beecher
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world. — Dan Quayle
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
So much of becoming a good athlete involves bringing other things to the table, other than physical skills. It involves intelligence, it involves many of… — Julius Erving
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are… — Martin Rees

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