"As long as there are tests, there will always be prayer in schools." -- Melissa Anderson.
If I were asked to enumerate ten educational stupidities, the giving of grades would head the list... If I can't give a child a better reason for studying than a grade on a report card, I ought to lock my desk and go home and stay there. -- Dorothy De Zouche
Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism. -- Charles T. Jones
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." -- Bill Cosby
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