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• Building new connections is a critical part of building a new economy. The American education system, as flawed as it is, is great for the creative class because of the way it mixes up networks.

  danah boyd

  Class, Creative, Connections

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• Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.

  Wendy Kopp

  Strong, School, Creating

  Source: www.economist.com

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• When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mind, Library, Culture

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Philosophy, Rights

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• Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Buddhism, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

  Ben Stein

  Running, People, Firsts

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• The teachers don't know anything. What are the kids going to learn with a horrible education system?

  Bill Maher

  Teacher, Kids, Horrible

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• Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry.

  Naveen Jain

  Children, Skills, Use

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• The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Excess, Regulation

  "Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference". obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Math, Technology, Engineering

  "Buzz Aldrin's Case For A 'Mission To Mars'". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. May 9, 2013.

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• We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.

  Christine Gregoire

  Moving, Responsibility, Needs

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• One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...

  Patrick Pearse

  Powerful, Night, Law

  "The Cause Of Ireland" by Liz Curtis, Beyond the Pale Publications, Belfast, (p. 190), 1994.

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• I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

  Michelle Rhee

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

  Rick Perry

  Education, Strong, School

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• The main theme to emerge... is that there appear to be two modes of thinking, verbal and nonverbal, represented rather separately in left and right hemispheres respectively and that our education system, as well as science in general, tends to neglect the nonverbal form of intellect. What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Thinking, Two, Hemisphere

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• To be able to compete, we've got to improve our education system, our litigation environment, our tax code, our health system and our trading policies if we're going to be as strong economically in the years ahead.

  Karl Rove

  Strong, Years, Able

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, Taken

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I feel strongly that we have to have an education system that starts with preschool and goes through college. That's why I want more technical education in high schools and in community colleges, real apprenticeships to prepare young people for the jobs of the future.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Real, School

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Weather, Steps

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

  Madi Diaz

  Teacher, Art, Important

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The communists have tried to corrupt our education system. They've tried to corrupt any number of institutions. Why wouldn't they try to corrupt the Catholic Church? It is a big enemy.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Numbers, Catholic, Enemy

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• What we need is an education system that works for every child, not a select few. This starts with providing a quality education for our youngest Americans so they can learn, grow, and become prosperous citizens.

  Marc Veasey

  Children, Quality, Needs

  "Leaving Our Children Behind" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2015.

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• I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

  Arne Duncan

  Thinking, New Orleans, Hurricanes

  "Education Secretary Duncan calls Hurricane Katrina good for New Orleans schools". www.washingtonpost.com. January 30, 2010.

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• Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Goal, Tolerance

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• I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

  Frances O'Grady

  Ideas, Space, Giving

  "Citizens before corporations". www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2009.

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