"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
-B. F. Skinner
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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.“
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
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