Education In America

The school is the

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The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher

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Ambitious and thought-provoking, Higher Education in America represents an informed and informative addition to ongoing debates at the national, state, and institutional levels about the aims higher education ought to aspire to and how best to achieve them. David M. Brown

One looks back with

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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. Carl Jung

I think you’d change

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I think you’d change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, ‘If you want the best education in America, you’ve got to live in Alabama.’ you’d change economic development, change the image of this state, you’d offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had. Bob Riley

If a man empties

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If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. Benjamin Franklin

Genius without education is

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Genius without education is like silver in the mine. Benjamin Franklin

Upon the subject of

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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln