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Bill Owens

"This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education."

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"This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education."

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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"

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"Discovery Determines The System Of Education."

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"Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn."

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"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."

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"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."

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"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."

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Amber Hurdle

"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."

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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"

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"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."

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"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."

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"If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen."
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"Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit."
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"A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world."
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"True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well."
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"Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much."
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"We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards."
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"Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide."
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"Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios."
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