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Random Jottings to the Blogosphere
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Boardside: Favorite Quotes I |
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Never confuse an outcome with a solution. Tradition often soothes us with its illusion of continuity, its false promise that our perfect yesterdays will never turn into our challenging tomorrows. People are so important. Just ask them. How to be a happy and irresponsible board member: vote for everything that loses and against everything that wins.
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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein ***** “A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.” Mahatma Gandhi “You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do” Mark Twain “Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.” George Bernard Shaw "When a school board says 'We may be stupid, but we are not liars,' something is terribly wrong." A judge after finding school administrators guilty of fraud and embezzlement. "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic." Anonymous "The call for the reform of local school governance does not emanate from a monolithic group of national reformers. In fact, there are major disagreements among advocates of reform. But all sides do agree that . . . school boards all too commonly: fail to provide far-reaching or politically risky leadership for reform; do not exercise adequate policy oversight; rely on rhetoric rather than action in devolving decision making on the schools; pay little or no attention to their performance . . . [and] govern to maintain the status quo." The late Jacqueline P. Danzberger, public-education advocate. A National School Boards Association lecture is given each year in her memory. "For decades, getting more students into college has been the top priority of America’s higher education leaders. But what’s the point, a growing number of experts are wondering [since only] 54 percent of students entering four-year colleges in 1997 had a degree six years later." Associated Press "The early decades of [the 20th] century forged the central educational fallacy of our time: that one can think without having anything to think about." Heather Mac Donald, recipient of the 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement." "We face a choice between a society where people accept modest sacrifices for a common good or a more contentious society where groups selfishly protect their own benefits." Newsweek columnist Robert J. Samuelson "If we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future." Winston Churchill "We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future." John Fitzgerald Kennedy "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight is a miserable creature." John Stuart Mill "For every problem, there is a solution which is simple, neat, and wrong." H. L. Mencken
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