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“It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.”

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Author:Johnnetta B. Cole

“There is a lot of money to be made from miseducation, from the easy to read easy to learn textbooks, workbooks, teacher manuals, educational games and visual aids. The textbook business is more than a billion-dollar-a-year industry and some of its biggest profits come from 'audio-visual aids' - flash cards, tape cassettes, and filmstrips. No wonder the education industry encourages schools to focus on surface education.”

Source: Marva Collins Way

“If learning to read was as easy as learning to talk, as some writers claim, many more children would learn to read on their own. The fact that they do not, despite their being surrounded by print, suggests that learning to read is not a spontaneous or simple skill.”

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Book:The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

Source: The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

“Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.”

“Those that do teach young babes Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.”

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Author:Edith Wharton

“To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.”

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle