"It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who - all of a sudden - their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary,"

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Source : "Duncan Apologizes For 'Clumsy' Common Core Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. Eric Westervelt.

Arne Duncan

#Mom Quotes #Children Quotes #School Quotes

“O love, where are you leading me now?”

Source : Robert Creeley (1982). “The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975”, p.206, Univ of California Press
“I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.”
“When love doesn't work, we hurt. Indeed, â€œhurt feelingsâ€ is a precisely accurate phrase, according to psychologist Naomi Eisenberger of the University of California. Her brain imaging studies show that rejection and exclusion trigger the same circuits in the same part of the brain, the anterior cingulate, as physical pain.”

Source : Sue Johnson, Kenneth Sanderfer (2016). “Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples”, p.29, Hachette UK
“I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.”
“... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. ... We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.”
“It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.”
“My career started slowly and then tapered off.”
“Light is time thinking about itself.”

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