Marian Wright Edelman Quotes About Education
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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.
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Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
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Education is a precondition to survival in America today.
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Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.
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It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.
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