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Broken institutions are an opportunity rather than a time to go home.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Broken
Institutions
Time Home Opportunity
Go Home
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There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Offering
Gap
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Whether someone signs something is not what's important. It's what they do and how they do it that matters.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Signs
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The way that we are going to solve social problems is by working with multiple different types of investing.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Investing
Multiple
Social Problems
Different Types
Types
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How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is lets make this a true land of opportunity.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Opportunity
Agree Upon
Land
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How about we agree upon what our common American values are, which is let's make this a true land of opportunity.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Agree
American Values
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The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Innovation
Manifest
Systems
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To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Important
Lasting
Mark
Thinking
Way
Wanna
Leave
Life Way Important
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My relationship with money is that it's a tool to be self-sufficient, but it's not something that is a part of who I am.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Self Sufficient
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I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Hours
Work Time Good
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Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Opportunity
Code
Talent
Sure
Distributed
Iq
Regardless
Zip
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That's why our country is such a beautiful, beautiful experiment: We manifest, we allow freedom if you follow certain rules and if you work really hard. That's at the root of our cherished values.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Manifest
Cherished
Experiment
Root
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It's our privilege to work with College Track students as they chart their course toward a college degree - they bring persistence, creativity, and extraordinary discipline throughout their academic journey.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Journey
Academic
College Degree
Discipline
Extraordinary
Persistence
Privilege
Chart
Degree
Throughout
Toward
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As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Parent
Coach
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I much prefer STEAM to STEM. The insertion of the A is arts writ large, and when you learn how to think, that means that you actually need to understand how others have thought before you, how have others made sense of the world.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Steam
Understand
Actually
Arts
Prefer
Large
Sense
Writ
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It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
School System
Designed
Industrial
Substantial
Systemic
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The beauty of having an LLC in today's world is No. 1, you have the ability to act and react as nimbly as need be to create change, and you have the ability to invest politically, in the for-profit sector and the nonprofit sector simultaneously.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Invest
React
Sector
Simultaneously
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I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Active
Country
Immigration
Immigration Reform
Improving
Waste
Capital
Developed
Geared
More And More
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Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Classroom
Learners
Outdated
Ubiquitous
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I came across this circumstance of undocumented students. These are kids who were brought to this country as youngsters, who are raised as Americans and go to American schools, and then when they graduate high school, they have no prospects in front of them because they are undocumented and illegally in the United States.
Laurene Powell Jobs / Business Executive
Prospects
Youngsters
Circumstance
Graduate
Undocumented
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