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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 all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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I was very aggressive as a child. At primary school in London my attitude was 'If you don't do what I say,…
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At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill…
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I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably…
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I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which…
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Local assemblies of the people constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science:…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense…
— Emma Bonino
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Probably my first memory of theatre, the first one I guess that had an impact on me was when I saw my…
— Colin Morgan
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I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But…
— Hiromi
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When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in…
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