“We are preparing a generation of robots. Kids are learning exclusively through rote. We have children who are given no conceptual framework. They do not learn to think, because their teachers are straitjacketed by tests that measure only isolated skills. As a result, they can be given no electives, nothing wonderful or fanciful or beautiful, nothing that touches the spirit or the soul.”
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
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“Turning in his seat, he gestures at the street and shrugs. “If you don’t, as an American, begin to give these kids the kind of education that you give the kids of Donald Trump, you’re asking for disaster.”
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. The”
― 1984
― 1984
“Today there were fear, hatred and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.”
― 1984
― 1984
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