"The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress but progress that is transformational for students, we need committed leadership - people who believe deeply that their students can achieve at the highest levels and who know how to create the conditions at the classroom, school and system level to give them the opportunities they deserve."

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Source : Source: www.economist.com

Wendy Kopp

#Real Quotes #Believe Quotes #School Quotes

“My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.”
“As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.”

Source : Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.352, Ballantine Books
“It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.”
“Whoever is holding the power says, "Yeah, let's keep things civil and quiet." Whoever's outside say's, "No, I'm not going to keep things civil and quiet, I'm going to bang on the door."”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Make your customers comfortable and they will give you their lives.”
“Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose (1962). “Crossroads: Being the Works of Subhas Chandra Bose, 1938-1940”
“My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.”
“It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.”

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