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“My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.”

School Interest Gone Magic High School Comedian

Author:Gary McCord

“The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.”

Writing Age School Young Enjoy Interest Skills Journalism Young Age Writing Skills

Author:William Jackson

“For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.”

Needs Years School Interest Education Study Students College Promise Lows High School Guarantees Continuing Loan Scholarship High School Students College Years

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 teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'”

Way Children Said Ideas School Lost President Interest Attitude Teacher Groups Example Offers Unions Dare Dues Protest New Ideas Representing Federation Teachers Unions

Author:Mitt Romney

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“Various epochs of the past have had their own characteristic struggles and interests. Each of these great epochs has left behind itself a kind of cultural deposit, like a geologic stratum. These deposits have found their way into educational institutions in the form of studies, distinct courses of study, distinct types of schools.”

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Everybody knows - but no one wants to say - that the Democratic Party has become the party of special interest bigots and racial dividers. It runs the one-party state that controls public services in every major inner city, including the corrupt and failing school systems in which half the students - mainly African American and Hispanic - are denied a shot at the American dream.”

“For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.”

School Political Order Individual Social Interest Function Conservative Disguise Socialist Axioms

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests”

Ifs Wells Children School Parent Interest Teacher Partnership Behalf Parents And Teachers

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.”

Government Wanted School Interest Teacher Involved High School Civics History Teacher

Author:Olivia de Havilland