"We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning."

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."

Stephen King, American Author

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"I'll keep us out of war with Oklahoma!"

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