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Comments "The best single social test of a nation's regard for the future is the way it treats its children."
Donald Kennedy, president of Stanford University, in a recent talk to
the Young President's Organization in Phoenix, Ariz.
"... Thousands of young South Carolinians are entering the work force
each year woefully unprepared for the jobs of the future. ... We have
failed to anticipate the need to retrain workers who have lost their
jobs in shifting industries and we have not taken the necessary steps
to reorient our vocational, technical, and secondary educational
systems. ... In the industrial age, education played a relatively minor
role. An ignorant work force worked well. Today, in this shift to
knowledge intensity, basic skills and technical education take on
critical strategic importance."
South Carolina's Lt. Governor Mike Daniel, speaking to the Council of
Engineering Societies in Columbia, S.C.
"Parents overestimate the 'dangers' of books. If children read a
four-letter word, it doesn't mean they're going to wind up shooting
heroin in the alley."
Stephen N. Tchudi, professor of English at Michigan State University
and vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English,
citing fear of censorship as the reason that educators avoid selecting
"nontraditional literature" for use in the classroom.
"If you're not taught at home, if you're not taught at church, and
you're not taught at school, where do you learn? Out behind the barn,
if you're lucky."
Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox, speaking about sex education at a
conference on child abuse in Austin, Tex.
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