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Everything interested him and everything excited him.
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leadership
education
communication
curiosity
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
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education
heritage
vision
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers-- most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people-- all the more insidious and insincere.
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reading
imagination
education
art
culture
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Azar Nafisi |
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Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He wanted his audience to become involved. He wanted their hands up in the air. And having been a schoolteacher he knew how to get their hands up. He began, in his speeches, to ask questions.
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leadership
motivation
education
rhetoric
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Robert A. Caro |
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Although, by todays standards, he set a vast amount of work, he believed as he told Mrs Ashley, that 'If you pour much drink into a goblet, the most part will dash out and run over'. In Ascham's view, it was the carrot, and not the stick, that worked.
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education
roger-ascham
tutoring-lady-elizabeth
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Alison Weir |
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Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required courses, Roosevelt read widely yet managed to stand near the top of his class. The breath of his numerous interests allowed him to draw on knowledge across various disciplines, from zoology in philosophy and religion, from poetry and drama to history and politics.
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education
liberal-arts
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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The World Bank, anxious that the last vestiges of Zimbabwe's former inclination toward socialism be abandoned, successfully urged the imposition of a token tuition charge for all grade levels. Equivalent to one U. S. dollar per year per child, this fee constitutes a burden to the poorest families, who have responded by sending only boys to classes. Too many of the girls . . . have resorted to prostitution in order to eat.
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free
education
public
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Michael Dorris |
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He was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths.
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education
arrogance
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John Howard Griffin |
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She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.
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education
maturation
graciousness
humility
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Bill Bryson |
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The author meets an African-American who observes that his fellows who begin with aspirations to a good education, solid career, and the raising of a family slowly lose that incentive. Even those who have a college education, he observes, need to take menial jobs and begin to look for excitement in less productive places.
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education
goals-setting
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John Howard Griffin |
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The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so widely used that sections in them became part of the national language. Theodore Roosevelt, scion of an elite New York family, schooled by private tutors, had been raised on the same textbooks as the children of Ohio farmers, Chicago tradesman, and New England fishermen. If you want to know what constituted being a good American from the mid-nineteenth century to World War I, spend a few hours browsing through the sections in the McGuffey Readers.
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literature
education
heritage
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Charles Murray |
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The more I read the more I fought against the assumption that literature is for the minority - of a particular education or class. Books were my birthright too.
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reading
education
class
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Jeanette Winterson |
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School in itself is a microcosm of society. These kids bring a lot of baggage with them, and as teachers with 30 plus kids in your classroom you have to take the time to get to know them, and not just see them as people you have to teach. And if they want to learn they will learn, and if they don't want too then too bad. But you have to see them as your surrogate children. Charles Chuck Mackey, former vice principal and coach of R. M. Bailey Pacers...
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relationships
learning
education
classroom
homeroom-teachers
microcosm-of-society
school-principals
surrogate-children
schools
teachers
children
students
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Drexel Deal |
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"One hundred years before the present government existed, a powerful leader, Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, stated his views in clear, unflinching terms. "I thank God," he said, that "there are no free schools nor printing [in this land]. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing hath divulged them...God save us from both!"
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education
critical-pedagogy
subversion
revival
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Jonathan Kozol |
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This larger goal wouldn't be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing.
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education
higher-learning
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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"Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?" One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil?" Alice said, "Well...." Another child said, "There is no justice on the earth?" Alice said, "Well..." Another child said, "We are all alone in the world?" Alice said, "Well..." Another child said, "The greatest depth of our loss is the beginning of true freedom?" Alice said, "Well..." Another child said, "The disposal of human waste is the responsibility of the brokenhearted?" These were all phrases Alice had put on the chalkboard after other field trips. It occurred to Alice, hearing these phrases now, that she might have attempted to do too much with a class of fourth graders. She was willing to admit to some excesses. Alice said, "Just listen."
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understanding
education
hope
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Lewis Nordan |
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J'ai commence a comprendre que le but de mon education etait une forme d'inconfort, un processus qui n'etait pas destine a me recompenser avec mon propre Reve personnel mais qui, au contraire, devait briser tous les reves, tous les mythes reconfortants de l'Afrique, de l'Amerique, de toutes les parties du monde, pour me laisser face a l'humanite dans ce qu'elle a de plus terrible.
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education
racisme
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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5d8247c
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"Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have it in themselves to reform their polis for the better." --
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leadership
education
self-discipline
maturation
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Rebecca Goldstein |
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The world is always the same. Always beautiful: why should we let our delight in it die? The answer to this problem lies in education. If we teach our children to love everything about them - the sky, the air, water, flowers, animals - then they will keep their youthful spirit forever, whatever may happen to them in the trivial world of affairs.
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nature
education
nature-s-beauty
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
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As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups - adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.
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poverty
opportunity
education
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Robert A. Caro |
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Real civilisation means an education that extends to the whole of life, in contradistinction to that of school or college: it means an education that forms speech, forms manners, forms taste, forms ideals, and above all forms judgment.
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education
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Edith Wharton |
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Shanahan (the head coach) doesn't allow failure to take root.
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education
mentoring
encouragement
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Stefan Fatsis |
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The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical work were mysteries to them - as were the job discipline and the subtleties that children raised in the industrial world learn without thinking about them; starting work on time, working set hours, taking orders from strangers instead of their father, playing office politics.
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education
culture-shock
job-training
culture
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Robert A. Caro |
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Hate's not functional; why are we taught it?
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violence
hate
education
science-fiction
peace
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.
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education
heritage
biases
conventional-wisdom
parenting
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A.J. Jacobs |
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The early removal from school of future officers of Britain's seapower, leaving them unacquainted with the subject matter and ideas of the distant and recent past, may account for the incapacity of no military thinking in a world that devoted itself to military action. With little thought of strategy, no study of the theory of war or of planned objective, war's glorious art may have been glorious, but with individual exceptions, it was more or less mindless.
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education
trade
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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204edfe
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As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
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education
parenting
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Rebecca Goldstein |
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17440d7
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The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University.
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learning
education
schools
self-expression
teaching
university
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Robert M. Pirsig |
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92608a3
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It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.
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education
meekness
humility
sincerity
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Richard Llewellyn |