Lars Løkke Rasmussen (1964) Danish politician
From his New Year Address http://www.stm.dk/_p_13032.html (1 January 2010). <br class="br">2010s, 2010
Cardinal Winning Lecture (February 2, 2008)
Lars Løkke Rasmussen (1964) Danish politician
From his New Year Address http://www.stm.dk/_p_13032.html (1 January 2010). <br class="br">2010s, 2010
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Context: The difficulty is to find teachers, particularly in the humble kind of schools, who can explain the elements of astronomy; but if teachers were taught such matters, they could explain them to others, and some of the teachers would be better employed in this way than in learning and teaching other things.... I believe that many children in the humblest schools will observe and learn as well as those in other schools. When children are younger, we must use other ways of training the eye to observe.
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2010s, 2015, Speech on (20 July 2015)
Laisenia Qarase (1941) Prime Minister of Fiji
(Paying tribute to Indian and Chinese schools in Fiji).
Opening address to the Education Summit, Suva, 31 August 2005
Meindert DeJong book The Wheel on the School
The Wheel on the School (1954)
Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
"What You'll Wish You'd Known", January 2005
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Acceptance Speech for the Margaret Edwards Award (1998)
Context: I've always believed that there is no subject that is taboo for the writer. It is how it is written that makes a book acceptable, as a work of art, or unacceptable and pornographic. There are many books circulating today, for the teen-ager as well as the grown up, which would not have been printed in the fifties. It is still amazing to me that A Wrinkle In Time was considered too difficult for children. My children were seven, ten, and twelve while I was writing it, and they understood it. The problem is not that it's too difficult for children, but that it's too difficult for grown ups. Much of the world view of Einstein's thinking wasn't being taught when the grown ups were in school, but the children were comfortably familiar with it.
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007). <br class="br">The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
“We did not yet have laws or order. We were like children just learning to walk.”
Pol Pot (1925–1998) former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
On the Democratic Kampuchea period, as reported by David Ashley (1995) and quoted in David P. Chandler, Brother Number One (1999)
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