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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 mean, what is…
- Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on…
- As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more harmful…
- Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.
- But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely…
- An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically…
- I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling…
- By far the most important factor in the success or failure of any school, far more important than tests or standards or business-model methods of…
- As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than…
- During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time…
- Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of…
- I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's…
- If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to…
- In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
- Schooling should not be left to the whim or wealth of village elders. I believe that we should fund all schools in the U.S. with…
- Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and…
- In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
- 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…
- I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not…
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- I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working,… — Drew Barrymore
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for… — Dan Benishek
- It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools,… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days. — Bjork
- When you're fund-raising for schools, then something's wrong. We seem to have lost some sort of sense of what the common good… — Lewis Black
- If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and… — Michael Bloomberg
- It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the… — Tom Bodett
- When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates… — Bono