"Too often students are being taught to read……" — Francine Prose

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• Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. — Donna Brazile
• I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations… — Eli Broad
• I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind… — David Byrne
• Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming… — Barbara Jordan
• Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and… — John Ashcroft
• It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are… — Noah Webster
• In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private… — Ernest L. Boyer
• The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity. — John Goddard
• Chastity, like honesty, is a civic as well as a personal virtue. When a society loses chastity, it begins to… — Unknown Author
• The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to… — Ludwig von Mises
• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a… — Mary McCarthy

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