Lack Of Education Quotes

• His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

  Woody Allen

  Education, Book, Beer

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• Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspiring, Education, Teacher

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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• Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

  Jacque Fresco

  Soldier, Machines, Killing

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• Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Education, Ignorance, Racism

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• Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teaching, Writing, Kids

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

  Josephine Tey

  Education, Women, Memorable

  "The Franchise Affair".

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• Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Ignorance, People, Fool

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• People see poverty all around them in India, but they are desensitized or immune to it. I came to the conclusion that poverty is driven by lack of education.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  People, India, Poverty

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• The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

  Robert Stempel

  Education, Hurt, Business

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• The human mind is our fundamental resource.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

  Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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• Ignorance is ugly and is the result of a lack of education. Help change that by spreading knowledge, positivity, & love for your fellow man.

  Eric Halvorsen

  Ignorance, Positivity, Men

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• There is a power under your control that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined. It is the power to take possession of your own mind and direct it to whatever ends you may desire.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Motivational, Mind, Desire

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• There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Girl, Country, Children

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• I can say with pride that I have spent days and nights not reading anything, and that with unflagging energy I use every moment toacquire gradually an encyclopedic lack of education.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Reading, Pride

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Simple, Men

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.169, Modern Library

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• Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely extends to other fields as well.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Simple, Religion

  "Should Religion Impact Your Vote?" by Roy Speckhardt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Racism, Doe, Reign

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• Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

  Ryan White

  Education, Lying, Hiv

  "The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945" by Steven M. Gillon, (p. 322), January 1, 2012.

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• Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Ignorance

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• One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

  Jane Jacobs

  Students, Wonder, Enough

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 79, 2004.

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• From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

  Zainab Salbi

  Skills, Faces, Violence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Education, Wise, Wisdom

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86

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• We know that there are several predisposing factors to gun violence: poverty, lack of education, lack of good parenting, lack of jobs, living in an environment where violence is seen every day, all the time. And children being born to children are likely to have all of these predisposing factors.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Jobs, Children, Gun

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Justice, Democracy, Wages

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• Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

  John O. Brennan

  Doe, Poverty, Violence

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