top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels."
Standard
Customized
More
"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
Author Name
Personal Development
"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach."
Education
"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
Parents
"And I think that's righteous, I think that's what parents want to know. They want to know what's going right in the school, and what needs improvement, and that's what this law does."
Improvement
"I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution."
Culture
"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
Education
"In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute."
Measure
"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."
Knowledge
"And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children."
America
"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."
Truth
"And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality."
Trust
bottom of page