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We go into neighborhoods as coaches and think we can convince a kid that 'son, if you get educated, you'll go to college, have a good job, a car,' ... That's bull. We don't understand that as he looks out of his eyes and sees Mike Tyson and others like him as heroes, he feels everything is instant. He thinks, I can gain a lifestyle without waiting 10, 15 years. It's easier to go out and commit a crime.

Education is a regulation of the process of coming to share in the social consciousness; and that the adjustment of individual activity on the basis of this social consciousness is the only sure method of social reconstruction.

I believe that the only true education comes through the stimulation of the child's powers by the demands of the social situations in which he finds himself.

We'll have somebody there, because we think it's important for all the education groups to unite and help the children on the Gulf Coast.

[GWU offers graduate programs in education, engineering and business.] Our campus just recently went from 50 acres to 95 acres. We're growing, ... Even with the arrival of GMU, the demand will still be high.