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"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."
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"We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility."
"You may be good, but who cannot be better?"
"Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot."
"We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."
"A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits."
"You need to assess yourself on a yearly basis and see how far you have gone and what you still need to work on."
"When it comes to perfection, the most that we could possibly do is to continuously push closer and closer to it. It is truly something to aim at, just to see how close you could get to it."
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
"You can choose better relationships, better jobs, better places to live, better uses of your time and better ways of treating yourself."
"Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time."
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"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."
"Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability."
"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."
"But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results."
"Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry."
"My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side."
"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."
"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."
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