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"There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison."
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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."
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"If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve."


"We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system."


"No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence."


"It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice."


"To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education."


"What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher."
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