"World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism."
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"I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.“
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"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."
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"Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life."
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"You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school."
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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 confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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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."
-Alonzo Mourning
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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