Who said it? (Take the quiz).Everyone has an opinion on education. Sometimes witty, sometimes wise. Was it A) Woody Allen Noun 1. Woody Allen - United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-) Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Allen , B) John Gardner
John Champlin Gardner, Jr. (July 21, 1933 – September 14, 1982) was an American novelist and university teacher. , C) Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , or D) Lee lacocca? 1) "In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to aspire to verb aim for, desire, pursue, hope for, long for, crave, seek out, wish for, dream about, yearn for, hunger for, hanker after, be eager for, set your heart on, set your sights on, be ambitious for be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less." 2) "Training the workforce of tomorrow with the high schools of today is like trying to teach kids about today's computers on a 50-year-old mainframe. It's the wrong tool for the times." 3) "I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers." 4) "Much education is monumentally ineffective. Too often we give kids cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." ANSWERS: 1)D; 2)C; 3)A; 4)B |
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