"America has a terrible educational problem in..." - Quote by Colin Powell
America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.
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“War is never a happy solution, but it may be the only solution. We must exhaustively explore other possible solutions before we make the choice for war. Every political and diplomatic effort should be made to avoid war while achieving your objective.”
“First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.”
“Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?”
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“Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail.”
“Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.”
“Take a coin from your purse and invest it in your mind. It will come pouring out of your mind and overflow your purse.”
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“Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.”
“Gossiping is the plague of little towns.”
“Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.”