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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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Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary.…
— Ethan Gilsdorf
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Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a…
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted…
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Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois
— Voltaire
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Women will work out their destinies — much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Books have their destinies.
— Horace
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If humans are to fully attain their destinies, so far as earthly development permits this; if they are to become truly whole,…
— Friedrich Frobel
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What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
— Victor Hugo
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True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in…
— Victor Hugo
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I have been criticized throughout the course of my career for placing too much faith in the reliability of children's narratives; but…
— Jonathan Kozol
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If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what.
— Tetsuya Nomura
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Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside…
— Frances Hardinge
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