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"If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through."
- Hayakawa, S. I.

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/36721/">If everybody is rewarded just for being alive, you get the same sort of effect as you do when you reward every student just for being enrolled. You destroy not only education, you destroy society by giving A's to everyone. This is a philosophical consideration that bothers me very much as I sit in the United States Senate and see the great budget allocations going through.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3291/">Hayakawa, S. I.</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/tag/society/">Society</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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