There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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Most certification today is pure 'credentialism.' It must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of parchment.
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The shortage of student loans may require ... divestiture of certain sorts-stereo divestiture, automobile divestiture, three-weeks-at-the-beach divestiture.
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Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
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Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
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The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
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Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
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If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard how about giving me 50,000 instead to start a little business' I might think that was a good idea.
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