"To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided."

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Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

Ernest L. Boyer

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“I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.”
“Somewhere, the zebra is dancing.”
“The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.”
“Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for a walk on one of the hiking trails near my home in Los Angeles, then meet up with friends at a diner. There's nothing better than sipping coffee, eating scrambled eggs, and taking three hours to do it.”

Source : Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 3, 2007.
“When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.”
“Mathematics may be a way of developing physically, that is anatomically, new connections in the brain.”

Source : "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 15: "Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science", p. 277, 1991.
“The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.”
“The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.”

Source : Moss Hart (2014). “Act One: An Autobiography”, p.401, St. Martin's Griffin

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