“ Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery, another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it w… Shelby Foote
“ You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowl… Howard Zinn
“ Children get dealt grossly unequal hands, but that is all the more reason to treat them equally in school, Chris thought. I think the cruelest form of prejudice is... if I ever said, 'Clarence is poor… Tracy Kidder
“ We aren’t encouraged to think for ourselves and ask questions. We are expected to accept what they teach us as infallible truths. Raquel Cepeda