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to talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

In general there's a lot of sameness in the songs and videos today. It all runs in to one mishmash... I'm definitely of the old school. I like melodies and I like real instruments. I like to see a smiling face across from me rather than a bank of computers. I like to play with real people.

The state could do better to fund community colleges at a higher rate and we wouldn't have to charge as much for tuition. Things that encourage people to go to college would be helpful, but we're not sure how much that's going to help community college students.

I have learned as much in the last three years as in any other comparable period of my life, but with an added realisation of how little over a half century of study one has in fact managed to learn of the whole range of economic policy issues.

As the science shifts, the work force needs shift. We need to be working with the education community to make sure they're preparing students to meet our future needs.

My voice was taken away from me. The prosecutors in Boston are elected. I am all in favour of educating people in Boston about shaken baby syndrome.

College can be overwhelming, so we see a lot of them start out, then drop out after the first semester because they just can't handle it. They need time to get stable, to get economically accustomed to the stresses of trying to live on their own.

We looked at Gov. Bush's appointments to the University of Texas Board of Regents, which is a particularly coveted post. It's valued because the university produces many of the state's leaders, the position is prestigious and high profile -- and it doesn't hurt that it comes with tickets to the 50-yard line of football games, which is no small consideration in football crazy Texas,

He's going to get a lot better in college. His body type is still changing and he still has room to grow and get bigger.

We aren't pushing a particular agenda, but we're opening a dialogue on how we need to be doing something different. We think it is positive to talk about ideas. We selected the university to do that because the university is intended to be a place where you can debate ideas without being polarized.

We are served by everything from corporate types from Abbott Labs through members of the military service from Great Lakes to school teachers, firemen and police from various municipalities.

I don't agree with kids staying home from school. That's the only thing about this that bothers me.

facility like this one has been long overdue. In order to compete with other schools, we need something like this.

After college, I feel like we'll be NBA superstars and live the life we dreamed of.

It just came down to the fact that it was my home-town school. I grew up around here, it was the opportunity for me to play in front of my friends and family.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key.

It is going to be a learning curve mentally for mental toughness. But we have great leadership and great young freshman class, and the chemistry is really good.

That middle school is so outdated, its not even funny. These schools are falling down.

A lot of people I know have jobs already. They're going right into something as soon as they leave school.

Right now, higher education is inaccessible for working class families and people of color. Rather than ask the state for money, they said, 'Why don't we increase segregated fees by 200 a year for every single year for the next 30 years for every single student' That's a lot of money.

It's a very similar process to a university or hospital being accredited. It's a thorough process and normally a department spends about two or three years doing self-assessment making sure it meets the rigorous standards required by CALEA.

Boston College is a great team. They're going to be very dangerous in the NCAA Tournament and we knew that game was going to be physical because they're such an athletic team, really physical on the inside, and it's the kind of game back and fourth and we pulled it out in the end.

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say We have done this ourselves.

Nutrition knowledge has progressed dramatically since the study began. Today we know that reducing total fat may not be enough we need to focus on the types of fat we eat.

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

I think the notion of college readiness as a goal for increasing numbers of our students ... is going to become increasingly important.

A lot of schools recruited me late because I played junior varsity my junior year. I went to a camp prior to my senior year, and that's when a number of schools started to look at me.

We did a lot in one year and got the school excited about basketball. We had built a great nucleus.

Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position.

He has some difficulty reading. Over the past couple of months I've learned how complicated the human brain is. Where most people take for granted their ability to put together whole sentences or convey their thoughts into words, Drew is having some difficulty with. He can speak. He just has difficulty at times expressing in words what it is he wants to say.

This is a turning point for High Point University, ... Mr. Wilson's gift will enable us to fulfill many dreams and heighten our standards to new levels of excellence.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

There is no doubt that we have the best fans in all of college baseball. They provide our team with tremendous support each and every year both at home and on the road. Fan Fest is a wonderful way for our team to kick off each season and thank our fans personally for all that they do.

Essentially, we've been neighbors for thirty years but there really hasn't been a very direct connection with Sweetwater. So the mayor sees the economic advantages of creating an environment such as a college town, because it would bring students and faculty a lot of activity that would be very positive towards them.

I realized when I stopped Charlie's Angels, I didn't do series for a couple of years. And I realized that from the time I was 5 years old when I started school, I had been told when to get up every morning, where to go then, what to do when I got there, when to have lunch, when to come back, what do to after lunch, when to go home, what to study, when to have dinner, and when to go to bed.

Mr. Weld knows less about solving strikes than he does about running trade schools.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

I hooked up with the junior team and that is where the Brahmas saw me. I was more interested in playing pro than going to college, so that is what led me to Fort Worth.

We're literally designing a middle school to be used as a fourth through eighth grade, so it's going to be a little different than a standard middle school.

I never liked group work in school.

Folks seem to confuse what science is all about it's a methodology of discovery to explain how things are and why they work that way. Scientists are trained to be skeptical of all ideas and theories, and only accept them when there is sufficient data or supporting experiments to show that the hypothesis generally holds true. Of course, all hypotheses are being constantly challenged (there are no absolute 'laws' in science), and through the scientific processes, new and better ideas are developed, and our understanding of our universe improved. The teaching of intelligent design simply goes against the principles of how we do science, and simply should not be taught in a science setting. ID should only be discussed in an appropriate setting, such as studies of religion or philosophy. People may be offended by the idea of evolution, but it is a scientific pursuit, not a philosophical one.

It's the midnight hour. We have to get moving on it now, not next year, not after some study group in the White House bangs this thing around for another three months.

I don't know what I'm going to do next year. I'm thinking I might play or take a year off to ease the transition of going to the U of A and just focus on school and maybe take it up in a year again. I'm not sure yet.

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

Sometimes you can practice something but what you wind up playing when you're out doing a gig is not what you practiced. What you learn is not necessarily what you practice.

Most of our kids are aged between 6 and 12, and just need a bit of encouragement to turn reading into an enjoyable activity. We don't need our teens to be in the Academic stream at high school, or to be intellectual over-achievers. They simply need to know how to read, and enjoy being with a younger kid for an hour a week. The time they put in counts towards the Community Service hours they need in order to graduate, so it's a classic win-win situation for any teen who enjoys reading and who's prepared to help a younger child.

I've had superintendents tell me 'Joe, you're right. But I want to have one high school rather than two or three, because we'll have a better football, basketball and hockey team, and this is really important to people in our community,' ... So one of the things is, how does the community feel about sports And in some places people are really focused on high school sports, and that's a huge factor in the decisions about the size of high schools.

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.