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“Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?”

“I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.”

“[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal grants.' Now that she is in a high-profile and hotly partisan race, it has come out that she also benefited from the moral and financial support of her second - now ex - husband. In the process, though, behavior we would expect and hardly notice in a man is being portrayed as freakish and problematic in a woman.”

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”

“If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.”

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

“Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.”

“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”

“Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.”