"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
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"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.“
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"When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
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"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
-Richard Cobden
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
-Alonzo Mourning
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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