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- But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're…
- At that time, I had recently finished a book called Amazing Grace, which many people tell me is a very painful book to read. Well,…
- A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
- 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…
- Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population…
- It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.
- I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality…
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