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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"Ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How many people we have heard abuse the British elementary schools, as they would abuse the British climate? How few have we met who realized that British education can be altered, but British weather cannot?...For a thousand that regret compulsory education, where is the hundred, or the ten, or the one, who would repeal compulsory education? At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; nobody talks about repeal."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant."
"Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education."
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"What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve."
"But the fact is, no matter how good the teacher, how small the class, how focused on quality education the school may be none of this matters if we ignore the individual needs of our students."
"And one of the things I've tried to do in my first months in office is to give more Georgians - reporters and members of the general public alike - a closer look at how their government works."
"One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it."
"There is no country on earth with a stronger tradition of protecting the public's right to know."
"As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection."
"We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation."
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