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Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

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Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

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Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

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Public school was never in business to produce Thoreau. It is in business to produce a man like Richard Nixon and, even more, a population like the one which could elect him.

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It is our nation which is blind, and needs our prayers.

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The ones I pity are the ones who never stick out their neck for something they believe, never know the taste of moral struggle, and never have the thrill of victory.

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Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

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I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 5th, 1936

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