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The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whethe

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether its Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. – Howard Gardner

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I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available. – Howard Gardner

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A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. Its often called the culture of the organization. – Howard Gardner

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Kids go to school and college and get through, but they dont seem to really care about using their minds. School doesnt have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. – Howard Gardner

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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. – Abdul Kalam

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My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didnt have any money, because Africa was the dark continent, and because I was a girl. – Jane Goodall

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I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didnt really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. – Johnny Depp

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Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have. – Mark Cuban

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A minority is always compelled to think. That is the blessing of being in the minority. – Leo Baeck

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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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Along about the beginning of February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer, I caught one of those colds which last for two days in the children and two weeks with me. – Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons, 1957

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He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle. – Aneurin Bevan

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