"Education is the only billion dollar industry that tolerates abject failure."

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Source : "Geoffrey Canada warns Michael Gove teaching unions 'kill' innovation" by Jeevan Vasagar, Allegra Stratton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

Geoffrey Canada

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“Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.”

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“There is no useful thing which may not be turned to an injurious purpose.”
“We can want peace, but unless we are spiritually at peace ourselves, we dont mean it. It is our thoughts which keep that part of the universe where each of us stand out of or in balance.”
“You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!”
“The Devil is a woman.”
“I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.”
“It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.”
“I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.”

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