Belonging Quote by Arun Jaitley

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

— Victor Hugo

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

— Herbert Marcuse

“To acclimate students to misery under the rubric that so doing prepares them for life is a cynical notion—and a horrifying one.”

— David Guterson

“The primary obligation of educators is to assist in the realization of each student's full humanity.”

— Mara Sapon-Shevin

The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really…

— Oscar Wilde

“…the extent to which a society focuses on the needs of its lowest common denominator is the extent to which that society’ll be mired…

— Tom Robbins

“For many people, it [suffering] starts already at a very young age. So what don't schools teach our young people the way to manage…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can…

— John James Cowperthwaite

No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him…

— Betsy DeVos

Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment,…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

— Johann Lamont