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“But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.”

“New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will provide special training for those who need and deserve special treatment.”

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Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965

“The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected.”

Should Children Important Soul Play Grows Education Training Excellence Manhood Nursery

Book:Plato's Best Thoughts

Source: Plato's Best Thoughts

“The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.”

Should Process Education Failing Depends Performances Excellence Financial Educational Aids Incentives Financial Aid

Author:John H. Sununu

“I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.”

Ideas School Form Individual Education Function Excellence Urges Principal Nurturing Yeast

Author:Jerome Bruner

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“Good is not good, where better is expected”

Inspirational Motivation Education Commitment Excellence Expected

Book:The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller

Source: The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller

“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.”

“All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.”

Ifs Knows Life Long Ideas Moving Education Learning Growing Skills Excellence Insight Long Life Learners Achiever Teaching Learning New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Denis Waitley

“Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

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Author:Michelangelo