"I am very proud of the quality of public education in Nebraska, but I believe we have an obligation to continually assess whether our system is meeting 21st Century education needs."

-- Dave Heineman

#Believe Quotes #Quality Quotes #Needs Quotes

“To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.”
“I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.”
“To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.”
“[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-control. Their goal was not to simply to ensure the child's duty to the family, but to help him or her make personal, individual commitments. They were the first authors to state that children must obey God rather than parents, in case of a clear conflict.”
“Thereâ€™s nothing under the ground thatâ€™s worth more than the little layer of topsoil sitting on top of it.”
“Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
“Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.”
“The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.”

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