"The things that caused problems for me in school are the same things that help me succeed in the world."
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"If Everybody In The World Dropped Out Of School We Would Have A Much More Intelligent Society."
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"People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple."
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"I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything."
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"I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10."
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"As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children."
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"Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body."
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"You can get all A's and still flunk life."
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"On his daughter Malala Yousafzai: When she was very small I used to say to her, 'tell me Malala, how is the school going?' And she'd say 'it is so-so, you should change this and this...' I trusted her wisdom."
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"Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? unemployment, welfare state dependency, illegitimacy, the gap between rich and poor. What do these issues have in common? Politicians, the media, and our so-called leaders lie to us about them. They lie about the cause. They lie about the effect. They lie about the solutions."
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"I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight."
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"School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."
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"It is much easier to condemn a child than to understand a child."
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"One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave."
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"Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner."
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"I always encourage people to start in their own personal universe, because sometimes we as parents start thinking about the big picture. How do I change what's happening in my entire school? And how do I do it in my community? And then you get overwhelmed and it's just like, "Forget it, I'll just stay here in my kitchen and wait." But, start small."
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"When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis."
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"There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school."
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"Engineering stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you'll have an engineer for life."
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"Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection."
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