"Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should we continue to compel students to try to pass them?"

-- Anya Kamenetz

#Trying Quotes #Students Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.”
“The world is a wheel always turning.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”
“If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.”

Source : Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. May 17, 2012.
“One should always avoid unnecessary unhappiness. Especially if one is an immortal. They taught us that in school.”

Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.244, Macmillan
“Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others.”
“The constitution is an instrument, above all, for LIMITING the functions of government.”
“We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the last century, one that enables employers to keep workers in lousy jobs by granting them some leisure time.”
“Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.”

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