“ For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education. Rick Perlstein
“ Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted. Dan Jones
“ How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task. How to render b… Joseph Campbell
“ If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has. Robert Lane Greene
“ Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear thinking and basic decency but to the structured parts of our… Robert Lane Greene
“ The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. Pat Conroy
“ How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that i… Henri Poincare
“ Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force of their tears, when they are alone and frigh… C. Sean McGee
“ To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education.To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and f… Joseph Lewis
“ One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche, as the Husains had found in garbage; politics and corruption, in which Asha placed her hopes; an… Katherine Boo
“ He was confronted at an early age with adult-strength realizations about powerlessness, desperation, and distrust, taking his dose right alongside the overwhelmed adults. This steady stream of shocks… Ron Suskind
“ Many of my classmates have happier memories of Blessed Sacrament, and in time I would find my own satisfaction in the classroom. My first years there, however, I met with little warmth. In part, it wa… Sonia Sotomayor
“ All over the world there are students, teachers and parents that face serious challenges every day. They need help with real problems that have life-altering consequences—and a group of intelligent pr… Tucker Elliot
“ We have to make these young people (of the Depression) feel that they are necessary. (They should be given) "certain things for which youth craves – the chance for self-sacrifice for an ideal. Eleanor Roosevelt
“ Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves. Ilchi Lee
“ To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves. Holly Elissa Bruno
