"School choice opponents are also dishonest when they speak of saving public schools. A Heritage Foundation survey found that 47 percent of House members and 51 percent of senators with school-age children enrolled them in private schools in 2001. Public school teachers enroll their children in private schools to a much greater extent than the general public, in some cities close to 50 percent."

-- Walter E. Williams

#Teacher Quotes #Children Quotes #School Quotes

“People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.”
“...But the problem is, people tend to assign you the role of the person you are at your worst, you know?”
“The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.”

Source : Tony Kushner (1995). “Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer”, p.40, Theatre Communications Group
“Music videos are so incredibly relevant, but I don't think they're relevant on broadcast television anymore. I think they're much more about the power of the Internet. The stakes in advertising is a very different game. There's a lot of money involved and a lot of pressure. I miss the freedom and the rock-'n'-roll spirit of doing music videos”
“That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.”
“I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.”
“I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.”
“A Composer who hears sounds will try to find a notation for sounds. One who has ideas will find one that expresses his ideas, leaving their interpretation free, in confidence that his ideas have been accurately and concisely notated.”

Source : Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”

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