States Academic Decathlon

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or academic:

“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)

“If we focus exclusively on teaching our children to read, write, spell, and count in their first years of life, we turn our homes into extensions of school and turn bringing up a child into an exercise in curriculum development. We should be parents first and teachers of academic skills second.”
—Neil Kurshan (20th century)