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The Elementary School Must Assume As Its Sublime And Most Solemn Responsibility The Task Of Teaching Every Child In It To Read. Any School That Does Not Accomplish This Has Failed.

True Courage Is Mixed With Circumspection, The Kind Of Healthy Skepticism That Asks, 'is This The Best Way To Do This?' True Cowardice Is Marked By Chronic Skepticism, Which Always Says, 'it Can't Be Done.'

The Secretary Of Education Does Not Work For The Education Establishment. The Secretary Works For The American People.

People Of Good Character Are Not All Going To Come Down On The Same Side Of Difficult Political And Social Issues. Good People - People Of Character And Moral Literacy - Can Be Conservative, And Good People Can Be Liberal. We Must Not Permit Our Disputes Over Thorny Political Questions To Obscure The Obligation We Have To Offer Instruction To All Our Young People In The Area In Which We Have, As A Society, Reached A Consensus: Namely, On The Importance Of Good Character, And Some Of Its Pervasive Particulars.

In The Battle For Preserving Sound Social And Moral Norms, Many Religious Institutions Can No Longer Be Counted As Allies.