Misha

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“It has been demonstrated many times that a culture can survive misinformation and false opinion. It has not yet been demonstrated whether a culture can survive if it takes the measure of the world in twenty-two minutes. Or if the value of its news is determined by the number of laughs it provides.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps.”
― Robert D. Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

“As I write, the President of the United States is a former Hollywood movie actor.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business