Education
There are 11 institutes of higher education in the Roanoke Region, including several colleges within Virginia Tech.
Colleges and Universities include:
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- Virginia Tech
- Roanoke College
- Hollins University
- Southern Virginia University
- Ferrum College
- Jefferson College of the Health Sciences
- National College
- ECPI
- Virginia Western Community College
- Dabney S. Lancaster Community College.
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The Roanoke Higher Education Center, located in downtown Roanoke, is the satellite campus for a number of Virginia state universities and colleges.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.”
—Jean Piaget (1896–1980)