♦ nivek ♦ Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 "I suppose it is because nearly all children go toschool nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." -- Agatha Christie [Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, Lady Mallowan] (1890-1976) English crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/A...stie.Quote.57A7 "Public educators, like Soviet farmers, lack any incentive to produce results, innovate, to be efficient, to make the kinds of of difficult changes that private firms operating in a competitive market must make to survive." -- Carolyn Lochhead American journalist http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C...head.Quote.57C7 "Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic -- why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students." -- Steve Dasbach Chair of the Libertarian National Committee (1993-1998) and its National Executive Director (1998-2002) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/S...bach.Quote.57F1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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