William Bagley quotes
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“When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?”
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“Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world.”
-- William Bagley
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Source : Abraham Flexner (1994). “Universities: American, English, German”, p.302, Transaction Publishers
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Source : Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.3, Da Capo Press
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“I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.”
Source : "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Aaron Tveit". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. July 24, 2010.
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