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"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

Barry Commoner on Education

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• "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

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• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

  Albert Einstein on Education

• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

  Aristotle on Education

• "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

  Maya Angelou on Education

• "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

  Oscar Wilde on Education

More quotes by Barry Commoner

• "Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law in journalism, literature and art."

• "The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II."

• "Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."

• "The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."

• "The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it."