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One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. -- Thomas Menino
It would be wonderful if people could grow together in groups, teaching and learning communities where they empower, evoke, explore the enormous capacities of the human condition. -- Jean Houston
Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience. -- Ben Bernanke
It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development. -- David Blunkett
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. -- Henry Louis Gates
We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others. -- Erwin McManus
Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart. -- Marvin Olasky
As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business. -- Warren Bennis
The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. -- Howard Gardner
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart. -- Sandra Cisneros
I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. -- Lloyd Bentsen
We joined a Conservative synagogue. I began learning through engagement, rote and reading. Suddenly, I belonged... well, to the extent that a novelist can ever feel she is part of a group; we may be part of a minyan, but we're not fully merged into the community. -- Susan Isaacs
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond their traditional mission and that people in the community become more involved with schools as both active participants in children's learning and as individual mentors. -- Daniel Goleman
Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning. -- J. C. Watts

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