Ann Bancroft quotes
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“I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.”
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“I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.”
-- Ann Bancroft
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“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
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