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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Abraham Flexner
American educator

Abraham Flexner was an American educator, best known for his role in the 20th century reform of medical and higher education in the United States and Canada.
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Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Abdul Kalam
President of India from 2002 to 2007

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

- Robert. L. Ehrlich

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

- Charles R. Swindoll

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

- Cesar Chavez

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

- Sydney J. Harris

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

- Jim Rohn