“It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a threat to teachers.”
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.”
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“Work in classrooms isn’t significant work; it fails to satisfy real needs pressing on the individual; it doesn’t answer real questions experience raises in the young mind; it doesn’t contribute to solving any problem encountered in actual life. The net effect of making all schoolwork external to individual longings, experiences, questions, and problems is to render the victim listless.”
― The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
― The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
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