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C. Everett Koop

"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."

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"There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health."

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"One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play."
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"My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job."
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"You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are."
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"They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up."
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"That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has dropped out, and a lot of people would like to join. We now know what each other does."
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"When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up."
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"You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes."
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"The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century."
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"The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for."
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"If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him."
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