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“There has to be a consequence to failure. Schools in the inner cities cannot be told, 'Oh, we want you to teach every child to learn how to read and, incidentally, if you fail to do that there's no consequence,' .. There has to be a consequence to failure, and the Title I money needs to follow the child.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.”

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Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“If we fail to interest, whether because we are dull and heavy, or because our hearers are so, we teach in vain.”

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Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.”

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Author:Brian Greene

“It is the long term investor who will in practice come in for the most criticism. For it is the essence of his behaviour that he should be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of the average opinion. If he is successful, that will only confirm the general belief in his rashness; and if in the short run he is unsuccessful, which is very likely, he will not receive much mercy. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

“Business schools are failing to teach the students about the risks of market failures. We need to include some material on market failures in the core of curriculum.”

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Author:Pankaj Ghemawat

“I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.”

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Author:Dorianne Laux

“Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.”

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Author:Al Green

“I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.”

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Author:Eric Idle

“Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.”

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Author:Marva Collins

“Too many people believe that one big, public success will solve their self-confidence problems forever. That only happens in the movies. In real life, the opposite strategy is what works. Call it the small victo-ries approach. In time you will discover that all failing really does teach you something you needed to know- so you can regroup and stretch again, with ever more...nerve.”

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Author:Jack Welch