#stem

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#education #effectively #high #high schools #impedes

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#attitudes #change #changing #complex #cultural

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#exports #illinois #mississippi #mississippi river #percent

You can't change the system through violence. ↗

— Alex Cox

#system #through #violence #you

Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#bogged #command #confident #defined #down

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#been #biological #build #design #fact

If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system. ↗

— Robert Duncan

#going #government #levels #mandate #money

It is the fate of operating systems to become free. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#fate #free #operating #operating systems #systems

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#cell research #engaging #federal #federal funding #foolhardy

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#cell research #embryonic #embryonic stem cell #embryonic stem cell research #i