Tina

“The thief left it behind:
the moon
at my window.”
― Ryokan

“See and realize that this world is not permanent. Neither late nor early flowers will remain.”
― Ryokan, Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan

“Unless we have the wealth to pay for private education, we are compelled by law to go to public school—and to the public school in our district. Thus the state, by requiring attendance but refusing to require equity, effectively requires inequality. Compulsory inequity, perpetuated by state law, too frequently condemns our children to unequal lives.”
― Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“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.”
― Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools