Quote by Donna Shalala
Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes w

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here. – Donna Shalala

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But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. – Donna Shalala

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You cant have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, theyre not going to hear them in America. I believe its part of their education. – Donna Shalala

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I am interested in getting people to use the healthcare system at the right time, getting them to see the doctor early enough, before a small health problem turns serious. – Donna Shalala

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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to mans estate, is the gift of education. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated. – Major Owens

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To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. – John Ruskin

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