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“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
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“A man like that is someone to go out with—once—twice—three times when the devil is in you. But live with? Have a child by?”
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“Placing the burden on the individual to break down doors in finding better education for a child is attractive to conservatives because it reaffirms their faith in individual ambition and autonomy. But to ask an individual to break down doors that we have chained and bolted in advance of his arrival is unfair.”
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
“To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.”
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“There is a belief advanced today, and in some cases by conservative black authors, that poor children and particularly black children should not be allowed to hear too much about these matters. If they learn how much less they are getting than rich children, we are told, this knowledge may induce them to regard themselves as "victims," and such "victim-thinking," it is argued, may then undermine their capacity to profit from whatever opportunities may actually exist. But this is a matter of psychology-or strategy-and not reality. The matter, in any case, is academic since most adolescents in the poorest neighborhoods learn very soon that they are getting less than children in the wealthier school districts. They see suburban schools on television and they see them when they travel for athletic competitions. It is a waste of time to worry whether we should tell them something they could tell to us. About injustice, most poor children in American cannot be fooled.”
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
― Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
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