"Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war."
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"I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.“
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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 studied secondary education."
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
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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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