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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."

"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea."

"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character."

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."

"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
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