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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions
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The San Ramon Valley Unified School District encompasses the communities
of Alamo, Danville, Diablo, Blackhawk, and San Ramon as well as a small portion of the cities
of Walnut Creek and Pleasanton. It is comprised of 28 schools serving more than 21,000 students
in Kindergarten through Grade 12.
District students are exposed to a broad based curriculum with a strong focus on the essential skills
including reading, language arts, mathematics, social studies, and science. Physical education, health,
foreign language, technology, and visual and performing arts are also included. Students graduating
from district high schools are required to have earned 240 designated credits. Opportunities include
a rigorous academic program, outstanding technical and vocational curricula, and numerous elective courses. All students have the option to participate in a wide range of extracurricular activities.
The SRVUSD consistently ranks among the top 10% of California school districts. Over 94% of the
graduating seniors attend college or university, and district students are accepted into the
University of California and the California State University systems at rates exceeding the state
averages. Furthermore, the district has been recognized for its excellence through such honors as
the coveted State Department of Education's Distinguished Schools Award (twenty-two such awards in
the past ten years), and through recognition by the U.S. Department of Education of five schools as
Blue Ribbon Schools (three elementary and two middle schools).
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Helen Keller
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The highest result of education is tolerance.
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Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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Alexander Pope
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Samuel Johnson
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
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Albert Einstein
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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Jonathan Swift
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Isaac Asimov
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'
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Malcolm S. Forbes
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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William Butler Yeats
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Thomas Edison
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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Helen Hayes
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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
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Robert E. Lee
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The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is education.
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