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If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

I do have impossibly high standards.

Set high standards and few limitations for yourself.

Without sounding pompous, I really do feel that I have a set of standards that I must adhere to, even leaving aside considerations of what the readers expect.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.

As an academic, what do you have? You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal.

Education standards need to be set at the state level. High standards are an important way to ensure that the education system we are funding is actually working and producing, at a minimum, what we would expect it to.

The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.