“Americans need to learn from the Wilson era, that there is a connection between racist presidential leadership and like-minded public response.”
― Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
― Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
“We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.”
― Look Homeward, Angel
― Look Homeward, Angel
“A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out.”
― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
“I don't pretend to be a very educated man, except maybe educated in the heart, and in being able to feel for the sorrows and fears of every ornery fellow human being.”
― It Can't Happen Here
― It Can't Happen Here
“Schools are even less efficient in the arrangement of the circumstances which encourage the open-ended, exploratory use of acquired skills, for which I will reserve the term "liberal education." The main reason for this is that school is obligatory and becomes schooling for schooling's sake: an enforced stay in the company of teachers, which pays off in the doubtful privilege of more such company. Just as skill instruction must be freed from curricular restraints, so must liberal education be dissociated from obligatory attendance. Both skill-learning
and education for inventive and creative behavior can be aided by institutional arrangement, but they are of a different, frequently opposed nature.”
― Deschooling Society
and education for inventive and creative behavior can be aided by institutional arrangement, but they are of a different, frequently opposed nature.”
― Deschooling Society
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