"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."

Society, Virtue, Consciousness, First

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"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."

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"In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people."

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"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before."

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"Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer."

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"These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals."

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"The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing."

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"We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it."

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"Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America."

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"Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry."

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"If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?"

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"The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy."

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"Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives."

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"Never separate the life you live from the words you speak."

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"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities."

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"We can remake the world daily."

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"What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists."

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"Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia."

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