Thanks, I will have to add one more to my Dennis stack of quotes

In recent days I have been looking at issues involving diversity and
education in America. I remembered the following situation with Mark White
as Texas Governor, but traced the lineage further and learned more than I
wanted to learn, bad and good.

Texas Governors and the Cultivated Mind

Mark White was once governor of Texas. He proposed "No Pass, No Play." To
play sports in Texas, you had to pass your courses. Molly Ivins, the long
term editor of Texas Monthly now deceased, credit’s White’s leadership of
this effort with White’s defeat as governor of Texas. Now Friday Night
Lights brings schoolboy football to the nation along with other related
attitudes and impressions. Mark White Quotes  “The rest of the world is
sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well-educated
mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at
football.”      “I think what we're finding across the church is that
people are tired of just writing the check for the mission. They really
want to do it. We made a commitment to the city to put up 50 roofs over the
next couple of months. We hope to perhaps complete 25 this week with the
crews that we have.”

Bill Clements used his fortune to become the next governor. Searches for
quotes regarding education were futile.

Mark White and Bill Clements were a bit before quotes on the internet were
more popular.

Bill Clements was one of Karl Rove's earlier political projects. Karl Rove
established the first major voter database in Texas. These efforts along
with changing demographics in Texas brought a complete change in the state
over time and eventually a change in the nation as well. Databases and
statistics were popular in Texas at the time. Dallas Cowboy football coach
Tom Landry was one of the first to use statistics to guide football
decisions and this led to major success. Electronic databases financed
another Texan, Ross Perot, who is also associated with No Pass, No Play and
was the first independent Presidential Candidate to do well since Theodore
Roosevelt.

Ann Richards and the Democrats managed one last successful campaign. I wish
that I could claim just a few of her quotes from
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/ann_richards

“Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest
work I have done to date.”
“I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I
could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.”
“I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really
glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war.
But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told
us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these
difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a
sense of national purpose.”

Ann seems to be one of the few that I might be able to communicate with:
teaching priority, the challenges of teaching, the realization of less than
optimal  opportunity in America, and the importance of sacrifice, giving
more of the full story, and a focus of national purpose rather than comfort
and individual benefit.

And then we had George Bush. Karl Rove crafted the campaign. Bush ran on
four major issues: juvenile justice, tort reform, welfare reform, and
education. Tort reform was the issue that funded the campaign. The Bush
efforts regarding No Child Left Behind have involved standards and
standardized testing.

Bush Quotes: “To those of you who received honours, awards and
distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can
be president of the United States.”

Who fits with the words of Mirabeau Lamar, at the beginning of the lineage
of Texas leaders as 3rd President of the Republic of Texas?

"Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of Democracy, and while guided and
controlled by virtue, the noblest attribute of man, it is the only dictator
that freemen acknowledge, and the only security which freemen desire."

This is a quote still etched in concrete on my aging middle school in Texas
City, Texas, and I return periodically to review this landmark and my
ability to measure up.

Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
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