"We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system."

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Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

Donna Shalala

#Taken Quotes #School Quotes #Skills Quotes

“As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.”
“I think the probability of a supernatural creator existing is very very low,”
“Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 8, 2018
“"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com
“Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.”
“Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.”
“Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'”
“No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.”

Source : Bernard Levin (1970). “Run it Down the Flagpole: Britain in the Sixties”

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