"I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."

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Carl Sagan

#Education Quotes #School Quotes #Learning Quotes

“But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results.”

Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.
“The Lord of man and beast is working in all; His presence is scattered everywhere; There is none else to be seen.”
“How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
“My objective was to have as varied a selection of roles as possible. It probably did hurt my career.”
“The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the real ground for confidence that we are in a position to gain knowledge of the world around us. At the same time, one might ask how it is that the cognitive equipment we have came about, and here, no doubt, our evolutionary origins are relevant.”
“Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.”
“If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.”
“It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.”

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