"There's something unsettling about the education of a……" — Amity Shlaes
"There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them."
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24 Quotes by Amity Shlaes
Amity Shlaes has 24 quotes on this site.
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Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.
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With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a…
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In the end, all new schools, public or private, snobby or not, add value to the education market, making it…
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Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building…
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Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it…
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Europe unified its monetary policy through the euro before it unified politically, therefore sustaining member countries' abilities to pursue the…
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To investors, job creation is a second-order effect. Market participants care first about interest rates, exchange rates, bond prices and…
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In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call…
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A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in…
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Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets…
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Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a…
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The result of the collaborative culture is that corporations or government institutions focus intensely on internal culture and pour their…
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