#educated

By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of accountability, is simply attracting the best-educated, most exciting young people into urban schools and keeping them there. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

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My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

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Our viewers are very educated, they can tell if I train or not. ↗

— Kiana Tom

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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. ↗

— Alan Turing

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I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

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It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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People are basically good, and when they are in possession of the full truth, they usually do the right things. ↗

— Bryant McGill

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