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“the strongest predictor of students’ success is related to their social circumstances. The social, intellectual, and fiscal resources, or “capital,” students bring with them into schools, whether charter or traditional, are much more important than the structure of the school or even the quality of the teachers”
― David C Berliner, 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education

“Each dysfunctional family is dysfunctional in its own way.”
― Michael C. Perkins

“Capitalists can buy themselves out of any crisis, so long as they make the workers pay”
― Vladimir Ilich Lenin

“The person who doesn’t read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.”
― Umberto Eco