"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
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"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.“
-Henry Adams
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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."
-Richard Cobden
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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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"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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