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The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
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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New York
William John Bennett
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It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.
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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.
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If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.
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Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will.
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The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins Once upon a time...
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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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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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True courage is mixed with circumspection, the kind of healthy skepticism that asks, 'Is this the best way to do this?' True cowardice is marked by chronic skepticism, which always says, 'It can't be done.'
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A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
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There is nothing more influential in a child's life than the moral power of quiet example. For children to take morality seriously they must see adults take morality seriously.
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I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.
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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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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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If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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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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Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.
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