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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
The NEA is a terrorist organization.
We are in the middle of an education recession.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
I've done everything but tap dance across the table.
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
We are here to help one another along life's journey.
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.
The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
There is no more powerful advocate than a parent armed with information and options.
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
Every child can learn, and we mean it... excuses are not good enough, we need results.
It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.
If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you've ever got.
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability.
Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special education side.
Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!
What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be.
Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.
I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins "Once upon a time..."
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
Real fatherhood means love and commitment and sacrifice and a willingness to share responsibility and not walking away from one's children.
We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.
It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.
When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.
Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
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.
