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"If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society."
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"Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education."
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"Trying to educate the dumb with a dumb teacher is nothing but washing the dirty clothes in a dirty water!"
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"I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia."
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"Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'"
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"Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it."
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"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."
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"You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education."
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"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made."
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"With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education."
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"Sex education has to do with what's in people's head."
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"When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa."
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"The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin."
Nature
"I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals."
College
"Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education."
Education
"Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down."
Enthusiasm
"My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another."
Work
"Does politics have to be injected into everything?"
Politics
"I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed."
Peace
"The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world."
Peace
"I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system."
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