Don't think that, by itself, [school-based management] will produce anything.
—Albert Shanker
president of AFT, 19881
The school-based management that has been heralded in this town is bogus.
— High school headmaster
Boston Public Schools, 1991
We shall never learn to & respect our real calling & unless we have taught ourselves to consider everything as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.
—Sir Walter Scott
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