Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.
Interpretation
Talent and intelligence are found across all demographics, but access to opportunities is not equally available.
Laurene Powell Jobs emphasizes the importance of providing equal opportunities to individuals regardless of their socio-economic background. She suggests that talent and intelligence are not confined to specific areas or groups, and thus it is crucial to ensure that everyone has a fair chance to succeed, which in turn can lead to a more equitable society.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about educational reform.
It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.
There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.
Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.
Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.
When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.
All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
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