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William Bennett
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: July 3
Former United States Secretary Of Education
Politician
Radio Personality
Brooklyn
New York
William John Bennett
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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.
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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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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
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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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America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
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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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What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.
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Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.
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We are here to help one another along life's journey.
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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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Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
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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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There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
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All real education is the architecture of the soul.
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From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.
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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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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 new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.
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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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