Oliver DeMille

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Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Entrepreneur
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Our children must be offered an education up to par with thier potential-and equal to the needs of the Twenty-first century.
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Children
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Those who wait for the future to happen before aligning their educational goals with the new realities will be left behind in the new ecomomy. A better path is to know what is ahead and prepare-this is education.
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Educational
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Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Teacher
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Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Teacher
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There are really only two ways to teach. You can inspire the student to voluntarily and enthusiastically choose to do the hard work necessary to get a great education, or you can attempt to require it of him.
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Hard Work
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Still reading but learning a lot about true education and the process of guiding our children in their educational pursuits.
- Oliver DeMille
Collection: Children