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I was one of the first 18-year-olds in the United States elected to public office right after 18-year-olds got the right to vote back in the early '70s. I ran for the Board of Education.
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Calvin Coolidge
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The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
Mark Twain
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Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein
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Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Shakuntala Devi
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
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