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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allowed to discover knowledge for themselves, that they should construct their own knowledge. This has surfaced most recently in connection with mathematics instruction, where the idea is that they need to discover how to add for themselves. Rather than being taught how to add, they should construct this knowledge on their own.

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Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

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Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this driv…

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You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

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There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

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Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close b…

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E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

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Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

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Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

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Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should be allow…

- Lynne Cheney