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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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I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when…
— Jim Carrey
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first…
— Joan of Arc
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The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when…
— Barack Obama
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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the…
— Charles de Lint
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I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
— Michael W. Smith
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The morale and the camaraderie that we had for one another earlier in the year is starting to come under duress because…
— Bill Russell
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I was the naughty kid that the teachers liked. I bullied a kid in the 1st year when I was in the…
— Simon Pegg
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Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to…
— Jean Aitchison
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And Brighton have beaten Southampton 4-2 which is exactly the same result as last year when they won 3-1
— Des Lynam
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Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love…
— Stephen Colbert
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Its Christmas Eve! Its the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier,…
— Bill Murray
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You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think,…
— Emma Stone
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