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- If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten…
- So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories…
- On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland…
- Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in…
- I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been…
- The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people…
- All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
- Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with…
- A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my…
- I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle