"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."

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Source : "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

Margaret Spellings

#Teacher Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2012). “The Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution”, p.198, Seven Stories Press
“A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.”

Source : "Fictional character: Colonel Franz Von Waldheim". "The Train", www.imdb.com. 1964.
“Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!”

Source : Sun Ra, Hartmut Geerken (2005). “The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose”, p.250, BoD – Books on Demand
“At Rome I love Tibur; then, like a weathercock, at Tibur Rome.”
“Among them, there were Muslims, Christians, and Jews living together. But then violent organizations came, bringing with them many large groups of people from various parts of the world to Palestine.”
“I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.”
“I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.”

Source : "Mara Wilson On Why Child Stars Go Crazy: Former Child Actor Offers An Insider’s Perspective". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.
“The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.”

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