Famous quotes containing the words national, specialized, secondary, schools and/or mathematics:
“Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise ... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)
“A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
—John Adams (1735–1826)