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"Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues."
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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
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"My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here."
"This foundational principle - that human beings derive their rights from God, rather than from the State, or any other source - is what made America different."
"We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity."
"State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy."
"I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business."
"Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation."
"I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'"
"Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion."
"Whenever I am among my fellow Governors, I am struck by how many face the same education improvement issues."
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