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"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

"I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school."

"High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again."

"The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration."

"The most important thing I learned in school was how to touch type."

"Going to school is an everyday process; it isn't something we accomplish and are all done with."

"I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed."

"I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school."
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"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness."

"May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks."

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety."

"All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society."

"I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius of some youth is more easily brought into action this way, than by the more sordid gratification of self-interest."

"IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle."

"A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts."

"When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may."

"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics."

"The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant endeavours, and raise them to public esteem."
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