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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Dangers Mention Poisoning Snake Snakes Talk You

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The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Audience Back Care Conception Delivery Goes Means Ordinary Safe Screening Stuff Target You

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My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Always Asked Children Did Experience Four Good Good Job Job Junior League Philadelphia Reference Sincerity Things Were Whenever Worked Years

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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Been Class Deprived First Indicate Keep Kids Kindergarten Percent Physically Polls Some Taken Teachers Unable Up Way

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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Been Chronic Defects Deprived Error Had Hearing Illness Kind Metabolism Picked Some Up Vision

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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Child He He Or She Learn Mentally Never Physically Ready School She Shows Up

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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: By The Time Circle Class Far Goes Green He Him Kid Kindergarten Know Learns Left Red Rest Right Things Those Time Who You Ahead

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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

~C. Everett Koop

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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

~C. Everett Koop

Topics: Academic Act Archives Aware Carnegie Dusty Fact Find Foundation Frequently Institutions Occasionally People Pick Report Reports Segment Up Way Well

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You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.

~C. Everett Koop

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: October 14th, 1916

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