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At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children…

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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…
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland. — Ursula Andress
For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and… — David Fairchild
I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside… — Ingrid Bergman
You know, when I eat three peas, I'm pregnant. When I visit a city, I'm buying a house. — Vanessa Paradis
I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year. — George Takei
I love to hold people's hands when I visit hospitals, even though they are shocked because they haven't experienced anything like it… — Princess Diana
What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to… — B. C. Forbes
Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around… — Dalai Lama
Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my… — Jeffrey Steingarten
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her… — Alfie Kohn
Producing quality compost is the most important job on the organic farm. A lot of the problems I see on farms I… — Eliot Coleman
Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting. — Marc Newson

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