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Her goal was to push us out into the world.
Michelle Obama • Becoming
national movement to apply an ethical framework, through government action, to the untrammeled growth of modern America. Roosevelt understood from the outset that this task hinged upon the need to develop powerfully reciprocal relationships with members of the national press.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
But surely it is more important to be educated in a sense of human dignity and equality than in anything else in the world.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“The existence of multiple forms of intelligence has become a commonplace, but however much elite universities like to sprinkle their incoming classes with a few actors or violinists, they select for and develop one form of intelligence: the analytic,”
Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
As leaders, we should think of ourselves as teachers and try to create companies in which teaching is seen as a valued way to contribute to the success of the whole.
Ed Catmull • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
When they were slaves, a coloured person was simply called "John" or "Susan." There was seldom occasion for more than the use of the one name.
Booker T. Washington • Up from Slavery: an autobiography
This underscores the wisdom of the traditional liberal education, which aimed to encourage students to develop their critical faculties and thinking skills. Success in business, as in most areas of life, depends upon being able to solve problems. If you can teach yourself how to solve problems, you have a bright career ahead of yourself. No matter
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
If you follow these instructions, you will succeed. If you keep your open-ended self in a box, you will rise up the ranks. What is heartbreaking is that increasingly, the process of education, which has the capacity to bring about the formation of the self—each person’s own point B—has itself veered toward templated achievement over open-ended proc
... See moreAmy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
I thought I was a subpar student and was bombarded by messages—from Black people, White people, the media—that told me that the reason was rooted in my race…which made me more discouraged and less motivated as a student…which only further reinforced for me the racist idea that Black people just weren’t very studious…which made me feel even more des
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