"Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation."
1
"I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool."
0
"Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains."
1
"Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real people; including, I daresay, a majority who are philosophically and by education inclined toward the modern, secular world, and particularly American values."
1
"On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions."
1
"The problem is that we are trying to prepare people for the new economy using a higher education system built for the old economy. As a result, many high-skilled, high-paying industries suffer from a shortage of labor, while too many low-paying industries suffer from a surplus."
1
"People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare."
0
"There are so many people around the world in need of high-quality education and really starving for education."
2
"Our solution on 'The Simpsons' is to do jokes that people who have an education, or some frame of reference, can get. And for the ones who don't, it doesn't matter, because we have Homer banging his head and saying, 'D'oh!"
1
"I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done."
1
"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon."
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"I don't think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future."
1
"I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia."
1
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
1
"I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people."
1
"We need to have a regulatory budget in America that limits the amount of regulations on our economy. We need to repeal and replace Obamacare, and we need to improve higher education so that people can have access to the skills they need for 21st century jobs."
2
"As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports."
2
"I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education."
1
"People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us."
0
"If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them."
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