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John W. Gardner

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

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"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

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Amber Hurdle

"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."

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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."

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"It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism."

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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"

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"If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others."

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Amber Hurdle

"No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process."

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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."

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Amber Hurdle

"A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."

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"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

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"American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century."

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"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."
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"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species."
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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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