"If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter."

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Source : "Problems We Face Together". Representative Steve Kagen, United States House of Representatives, July 21, 2007.

Steve Kagen

#Matter Quotes #Public Education Quotes

“Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.”
“Musicians should never forget that we're blessed. We have a special gift that people can enjoy through us. We've had the good fortune to receive this and pass it along to others.”
“My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it's recorded.”
“War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.”

Source : "Kathryn Bigelow Talks About 'The Hurt Locker'" by Jennie Yabroff, www.newsweek.com. June 18, 2009.
“The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.”
“...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.”

Source : George Joseph Stigler, Paul Anthony Samuelson (1963). “A Dialogue on the Proper Economic Role of the State”
“The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.”
“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”

Source : "Oeuvres". Volume 2, p. 253, 1840.

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