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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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