Education Quote by Eric Schlosser

“I really like visiting schools, but what I tell students isn't anywhere near as interesting to me as what they tell me.”

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Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as…

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So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of…

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I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.

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“The medical literature on the causes of food poisoning is full of euphemisms and dry scientific terms: coliform levels, aerobic plate counts, sorbitol, MacConkey…

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A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

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Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.

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Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on…

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The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.

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Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

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The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs…

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“The cable and the X-unit both had female plugs. Somehow the cable had been installed backward. It would take a couple of days to disassemble the layers of spheres and explosives, remove the cable, and reinstall it properly. “I felt a chill and started to sweat in the air-conditioned room,” O’Keefe recalled. He decided to improvise. With help from another…

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“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able…

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