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Mary Antin

"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."

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Donna Grant

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Donna Grant

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

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Donna Grant

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Donna Grant

"I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school."

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Donna Grant

"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."

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Donna Grant

"You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out."

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Donna Grant

"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."

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Donna Grant

"I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975."

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Donna Grant

"I never went to a modeling school, and I don't suggest to anybody that they go to a modeling school."

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Donna Grant

"I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks."

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Mary Antin
"As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns."

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Mary Antin
"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."

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Mary Antin
"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."

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Mary Antin
"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."

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Mary Antin
"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."

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Mary Antin
"The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family."

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Mary Antin
"On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles."

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Mary Antin
"His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day."

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Mary Antin
"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."

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Mary Antin
"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

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