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Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
William Bennett
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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
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William John Bennett
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The secretary of education does not work for the education establishment. The secretary works for the American people.
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Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools
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When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we knew the main reason for the attack was that Islamists hated our way of life, our virtues, our freedoms. What we never imagined was that the free press - an institution at the heart of those virtues and freedoms - would be among the first to surrender.
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The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.
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Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.
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I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.
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In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
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If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning.
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