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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
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We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
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Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
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The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
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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…
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
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Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is…
— Leo Buscaglia
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding…
— Horace Mann
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Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from…
— Thomas Traherne
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Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their…
— Jeb Bush
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The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
— Virginia Hamilton
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When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more…
— Sandra Dodd
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I think children learn from example. I don't believe in raising them in an authoritative atmosphere.
— Kent McCord
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As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Once children learn how to learn, nothing is going to narrow their mind.
— Marva Collins
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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Whatever other children learn in a year, let Bahá’í children learn in a month. The heart of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá longeth, in its love,…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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If all our children learn to do is read, they will not be literate.
— David Warlick
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