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Building a new Cabinet-level department taught me more than I learned in all my years on the bench, and I learned something every day of those 18 years.

Shirley Hufstedler

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.

Shirley Hufstedler

You must keep all of these balls in the air at the same time, or one of them is sure to hit you on the head.

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I reached the White House expecting to be interviewed as one of several possibilities on a short list, only to discover I was the list. I felt like a girl who had been invited to meet her fiancé's family only to find herself walking down the aisle.

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Enormous problems of budget, organization, legislation and regulation will confront you constantly. Each problem will be worthy of your undivided attention, but none will ever get it.

Shirley Hufstedler

While you juggle, you must contend with hundreds of interest groups, ranging from advocates for more sex education to those who are horrified at what children are already being taught.

Shirley Hufstedler

I am sure you will find, as I have, that a great many people are willing to fight over children, but precious few are willing to fight for them. Your job, shorn of the paper and the bureaucracy, is to fight forcefully and joyfully for those kids.

Shirley Hufstedler

Shirley Hufstedler

Shirley Hufstedler

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Born: August 24, 1925

Died: March 30, 2016 (aged 90)

Bio: Shirley Ann Mount Hufstedler was an American lawyer and judge who served as the first United States Secretary of Education, under President Jimmy Carter.

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