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Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

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History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.

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There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.

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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

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Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure doesn't enter into anyone's calculations.

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History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares.

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If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

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In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

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Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld.

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The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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