#stem

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#did #impact #improved #major #major impact

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#end #enter #experts #fifth #grade

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#any #case #civilian #decisions #effort

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ↗

— William James

#challenges #credit #fact #in fact #just

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend. ↗

— Richard McCabe

#came #career #choice #could #critics

It is vital that the entire international system is ready to meet the challenges of future disasters. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

#disasters #entire #future #international #meet

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#equal #equal rights #family #fighting #had

The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of the government. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#default #fact #government #inside #journalists

You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#education #great #innovative #job #right

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#become #bubble #child #controlling #innocence