Shirley Hufstedler

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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Teacher
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If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
- Shirley Hufstedler
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Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
- Shirley Hufstedler
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people. To the teacher, America entrusts her most precious resource, her children; and asks that they be prepared ... to face the rigors of individual participation in a democratic society.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Teacher
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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Inspirational
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The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Success
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I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Humanity
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I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Education
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Justice is a blindfolded woman.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Justice
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The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Teacher
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If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.
- Shirley Hufstedler
Collection: Havens