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When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potentially in my contract that I'm not allowed to do that. ”
I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it. ”
We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts. ”
This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work. ”
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that? ”
Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people. ”
An education is not so much about making a living as making a person. ”
I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education. ”
I was 17 the first time I set foot in a classroom, but 10 years later, I would graduate from Cambridge with a Ph.D. 'Educated' is the story of how I came by my education. It is also the story of how I lost my family. ”
A huge problem we face when we're in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader. ”