Status Updates From Just As I Thought

[About Brazil]
"Imagine [...] being a citizen of a country in which the world's air is made."

(p. 205, from "Notes in Which Answers Are Questioned")
"I must admit I'm obsessed with the notion that the children of radicals belong in the public elementary-school system. There, they and their parents can take part in the great social struggle for sensible education for *all* the children. The school is the event: the school and its citizens are the education."

the reading is going slowly now because i'm in the section of forwards to books and authors i don't know, which makes it less interesting.