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"Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime."
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"Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower."
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"The most important duty of a teacher is to not only teach but to also inspire and enhance the desire for learning."
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"Keep calm and keep learning."
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"Education opens the door for an extraordinary life."
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"Education is the best fertilizer for the mind."
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"Experience is a necessary education."
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"Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life."
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"Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy."
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"Begin to learn."
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"Education is the antidote to many poisons."
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"I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education."
Education
"What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later."
People
"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage."
Knowledge
"If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there's no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."
Society
"An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true."
People
"The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society."
Society
"I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students."
People
"Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available."
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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 not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child."
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"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, if it was painful to read, it was also painful to write. I had pains in my chest for two years while I was writing that book."
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