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I've never believed the charter movement was exclusively for socially and economically disadvantaged kids.
Eva Moskowitz
Kids
Charter
Disadvantaged
Never
Economically
Movement
Believed
Socially
Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.
Eva Moskowitz
You
Few
Whatever
Think
Rigor
Like
Looks
Go
Up
Notch
Should
Schools can ebb and flow. It can be phenomenal one day, and then you hit fractions, and it falls apart.
Eva Moskowitz
Day
You
One Day
Schools
Falls
Hit
Apart
Then
Flow
Phenomenal
Fraction
Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.
Eva Moskowitz
Made
Every
Dramatically
Could
Count
Most
Improve
America
Just
Teachers
Teaching
Second
Every Second
No matter how good a teacher is, if that teacher won't play as part of the team, you're better off without her.
Eva Moskowitz
Teacher
Good
You
Better
Matter
Better Off
Part
Without
How
Off
Team
Play
Her
Parents who don't like Success should find a school they do like. For someone to enroll their child at Success and insist we change our model is like a person walking into a pizzeria and demanding sushi. If you want sushi, go to a sushi restaurant!
Eva Moskowitz
Success
You
Change
School
Insist
Parents
Demanding
Our
Enroll
Find
Restaurant
Someone
Like
Go
Walking
Model
Child
Person
Sushi
Want
Should
Who
If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.
Eva Moskowitz
Hope
Day
Me
Think
Okay
District
Something
Fires
Simply
Schools
Because
Board
Ever
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Felix Adler
Love
Fashion
Love Is
Other
Enriched
Expansion
Natures
Include
Each
Two
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler
Faith
Religion
Those
Moral
Be Real
Only
Limit
Without
Real
Ceaseless
Efforts
Improvement
Movement
Upward
Moving
Acquire
Ethical
Engaged
Who
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
Felix Adler
Fire
Society
Address
Must
Altar
Itself
Burns
Ethical
Platform
Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
Felix Adler
Time
People
Political
Independence
Country
Hundred
Hundredth
Anniversary
Perhaps
Celebrating
May
Evening
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.
Felix Adler
Today
Church
Power
Diminishing
See
No-One
Fail
Communities
Large
Many
Large Numbers
Among
Numbers
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
Felix Adler
Knowledge
You
Legal
Law
Own
Some
Seek
Point
Writers
Over
Likely
Obtain
Efforts
Order
Information
Ponder
Your
Desire
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Felix Adler
Time
Good
Day
Legal
Rest
Long
Long Time
Conviction
Community
Has-Been
General
General Good
Purposes
Weekly
Advantage
Employed
Institutions
Felt
Without
Been
Affecting
Existing
Might
Prejudice
Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
Felix Adler
Love
Best
Good
Woman
Country
Bestow
Seeks
Highest
He
Like
Loves
Who
Her
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Game
Kind
Exactly
Fact
Could
Scholars
Fail
Terms
Another
How
Concrete
Wonder
Different
In Fact
Then
Should
Engaged
Languages
Connections
Comparing
Eventually
Interpreted
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
Will
Strictly
Those
Recognise
Restricted
General
Laws
Rational
Operating
Another
Linguistics
Branch
Manner
Separating
Languages
Phenomena
Universally
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
First
Philosophical
Carried
Invented
Unchanged
Never
Had
French
Greeks
Any
Grammar
View
Phases
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Differences
System
Combined
Ideas
Sound
Linguistic
Series
Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Will
Say
Sign
Systems
Case
Part
Involve
Same
Any
Psychology
Social
Languages
Applicable
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
Correcting
Directed
Studies
Merely
Towards
Longer
Were
Grammar
Henceforth
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
History
Business
Will
Few
Possible
Object
Only
Study
Trace
Known
Scientific
Limited
Very
Task
The History Of
Languages
Naturally
Extent
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Ferdinand de Saussure
Communication
Words
First
Relation
Relations
Independent
Kind
Spoken
Within
Subject
Which
Based
Speech
Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
Frances Mayes
Me
World
Magic
Most
Venice
Still
Just
Place
The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the enjoyment of the everyday for some future goal.
Frances Mayes
Work
Future
Enjoy
Everyday
Some
Driven
Put
Day-To-Day
Priorities
Goal
Italians
Off
Really
Right
Enjoyment
Going to Europe as a budding cook opened my eyes to food in a different way. When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.
Frances Mayes
Food
Eyes
Plants
First
Big
Healthy
Way
Put
Budding
Opened
First Thing
Got
Italy
Did
Going
The First Thing
Different
Little
Them
Turn
Bushes
Cook
Ground
Europe
Different Way
Thing
Watch
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