Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before
“It is my ambition that parents can send their children to school with the prospects that they are as interested and excited to learn on their last day of school as they were on the very first.”
From his New Year Address http://www.stm.dk/_p_13032.html (1 January 2010).
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