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Jennifer Granholm

"To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam."

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"To compete in a global economy, our students must continue their education beyond high school. To make this expectation a reality, we must give students the tools they need to succeed, including the opportunity to take a college entrance exam."

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

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

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"Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own."

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"With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job."
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"We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country."
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"We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export."
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"That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here."
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"The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor."
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"Don't mistake niceness for weakness."
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"So we just hope that all of these governors who are grappling will be able to provide the basic services to our citizens and not have to cut things that really are painful."
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"We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it."
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"We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will."
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"If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction."
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