"Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job."

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Source : "'You’re Either With Us or You’re With the Status Quo': Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary" by Dan Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2009.

Michelle Rhee

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“I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.”
“I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.”
“Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.”
“We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
“I give a lot of myself, so it will be good to release some heavy energy, and I know yoga deals with energy. So I definitely want to get into that.”
“I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
“With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.”

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