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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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In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently…
— Dave Barry
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…
— Allan Bloom
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A high school student shouldn't smoke cigarettes. You can't comfort someone with money either. And fooling around with someone's feelings...Trying out someone…
— Cheon Eunbi
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My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa,…
— Wallace Carothers
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While I was there I became deeply interested in photography, and indeed the most noteworthy event in my early life was winning…
— Douglass North
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It’s a world where high school students look roughly twenty-four.
— Jane Lynch
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Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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I was a high school student like Picasso. I was a little eccentric, but I had high ideals. I wanted to get…
— Unknown Author
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Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who…
— Dianne Feinstein
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Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to…
— Elton Gallegly
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A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early…
— Ansel Elgort
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Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I…
— Jerry Siegel
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