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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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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up…
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Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any…
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting…
— Dorothy Day
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Big breakthrough ideas often seem nuts the first time you see them.
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As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they…
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic…
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Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.
— Peggy Noonan
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It is easy to see that, even in the freedom of early youth, an American girl never quite loses control of herself;…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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