“There are three kinds of patriots, two bad, one good. The bad are the uncritical lovers and the loveless critics. Good patriots carry on a lover's quarrel with their country.”
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“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.”
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“But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nation’s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.”
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
“Human beings
are made of water–-
we were not designed
to hold ourselves together
rather run freely
like oceans
like rivers”
― Hunting Season
are made of water–-
we were not designed
to hold ourselves together
rather run freely
like oceans
like rivers”
― Hunting Season
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