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"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed."
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"Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools."
Behavior
"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."
People
"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."
Reading
"You need massive recruitment to tell the poorest of the poor what is possible."
Poor
"In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school."
Family
"During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed."
Education
"Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions."
Politics
"When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement."
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"The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King."
Policy
"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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"Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character."
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"A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation."
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"Real education leads to the liberation of the mind."
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"There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly but then less is learned there so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other."
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"After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body."
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"Experience is a sacred education."
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"It was the end of the October term of my sophomore year, and everything was petty normal, except for Social Studies, which was no big surprise. Mr. Dimas, who taught the class, had a reputation for unconventional teaching methods. For midterms he had blindfolded us, then had us each stick a pin in a map of the world and we got to write essays on wherever the pin stuck. I got Decatur, Illinois. Some of the guys complained because they drew places like Ulan Bator or Zimbabwe. They were lucky. YOU try writing ten thousand words on Decatur, Illinois."
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"Getting an early education and then continuing it throughout life is a brilliant way to achieve success and live a purposeful life."
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"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are unprepared to obtain new information for development. Learning is a way of staying alive."
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"My expectations from the university were perhaps too idealistic. I had dreams of learning things about innovation and discovery in the field of technology, but all of it hit the ground hard, when I faced with the pathetic reality of the so-called higher education system. To my surprise, I found myself stuck behind the walls of meaningless facts, figures and rankings. It occurred to me that, it was not actually a place for education, rather it was a place where you go to get your head filled with useless undigested information, that you'd probably never use throughout your entire life. It was not education, and moreover, it was definitely not science."
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