American Education Week
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"The highest result of education is tolerance." --Helen Keller |
| "Fifty years from now it will not matter what kind of car you drove, what kind of house you lived in, how much you had in your bank account, or what your clothes looked like. But the world may be a little better because you were important in the life of a child." --Anonymous |
| "There is a place in America to take a stand: it is public education. It is the underpinning of our cultural and political system. It is the great common ground. Public education after all is the engine that moves us as a society toward a common destiny...It is in public education that the American dream begins to take shape." --Tom Brokaw |
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"I like to think that the greatest success of any life is that moment when a teacher touches a child's heart and it is never again the same.... Everything America is or ever hopes to be depends upon what happens in our school's classrooms." --Frosty Troy, Editor, Oklahoma Observer |
| "What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" --Cicero |
| "The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth." --Dan Rather |
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"A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher."--Cesar Chavez |
| "A teacher affects eternity." --Henry Adams |
| "When I was a boy on the Mississippi River there was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped building the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built." --Mark Twain |
| "Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?" --Cesar Chavez |
| "A child miseducated is a child lost." --John F. Kennedy |
| "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." --G. K. Chesterton |
| "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." --Benjamin Franklin |
| "The end of all education should surely be service to others." --Cesar Chavez |
| "Education is the vaccine for violence." --Edward James Olmos, Actor |
| "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." --Malcolm S. Forbes |
"Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity." --Deborah Meier, educator |
| "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats |
Last updated March 2, 2005
