![Most important, [research on affirmative action] has completely failed to show that affirmative action ever closes the academic gap between minorities and whites. And failing in this, affirmative action also fails to help blacks achieve true equality with whites - the ultimate measure of which is parity in skills and individual competence. Without this underlying parity there can never be true equality in employment, income levels, rates of home ownership, educational achievement and the rest.](/assets/img/quote-photos/most-important-research-on-affirmative-action-has-completely-failed-to-show-th.jpg)
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life. William James
educational self-confidence awards
Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one's own strength. Sai Baba
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Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.
educational skills quality
Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way.
educational mean humility
Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
educational humility pride
Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of pride and envy.
educational spring men
Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
educational atmosphere reverence
The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.
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Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot. Julie Buchanan
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I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.
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I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.
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home house private
He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned. John Milton
home trouble
He'd be in a lot more trouble when he got at home if he didn't do what he did. Larry Brown
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He knows those guys. It's more of a homecoming than you might know.
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I'll always be a Brit abroad, and I love London so much, but New York is my home. Simon Spurr
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To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. Roger Ascham
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Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. Sarah Wayne Callies
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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. William Congreve
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. Henry Rollins
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I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. Ellen Key