Reviews 1 — RE-ELECT RANDY BOOTHE

HEROES

Please enjoy this collection of ideas from some of my heroes of the past. In their own time and place in history, they thought “outside the box”, and encouraged others to do the same. I can’t think of a more worthy focus for our best collaboration, our most innovative ideas and our greatest enthusiasm than that of Utah’s children. The future of each child’s well-being and success depends on our priorities and vision today!

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . .They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Public education is doing what it’s supposed to do – taking the masses and educating everybody. We don’t have the luxury of tagging and testing people before we accept them, everybody comes through.”

— James Kelly

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers, and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

— Lee Iacocca

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

— Aristotle

“Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

-Nelson Mandela

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

— Albert Einstein

“In the U.S., we believe that the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.”

— Bill Gates

“The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.”

— John Adams

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men – the balance-wheel of the social machinery . . . It does better than disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich; it prevents being poor.”

— Horace Mann

“Of all the civil rights for which the world has struggled and fought for 5,000 years, the right to learn is undoubtedly the most fundamental . . . The freedom to learn . . . Has been bought by bitter sacrifice. And whatever we may think of the curtailment of other civil rights, we should fight to the last ditch to keep open the right to learn.”

—W.E.B. DuBois

HEROES

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . .They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

“Public education is doing what it’s supposed to do – taking the masses and educating everybody. We don’t have the luxury of tagging and testing people before we accept them, everybody comes through.”

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers, and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

“Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.”

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

“Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.”

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.”

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

“In the U.S., we believe that the best way to improve lives is to improve public education.”

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men – the balance-wheel of the social machinery . . . It does better than disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich; it prevents being poor.”

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation.”