Quotes of: American-league Keyword

American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business may be the worst of them, for it threatens to destroy public education. Who will Stand up to t...

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

Don't Know Much about History: Everything You Need to Know about American History But Never Learned

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average Am...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves.... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk trad...

Slaughterhouse-Five

Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. As a result, many parents, families, and caregivers are at a loss and feel defeated by the majority of Americans who strive to ma...

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

New Rule: Americans have to come up with a better cheese to represent the nation than American cheese. I'm not even sure American cheese is cheese. I think it's aged Jell-O. And it doesn't need to be individually wrapped in plastic, either. You're th...

The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

The highest paid Americans read an average of two to three hours per day. The lowest paid Americans don't read at all... ...58% of adults never read another book after they leave high school—including 42% of university graduates... ...43.6% of Amer...

The Luck Factor

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borr...

Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Of all the countries in the world, we Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race of people barbaric or civilized," Bennett said in a speech at the start of the dust storms. What was happening, he said, was "sinister", a symptom o...

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Daughter A sprinkle of sparkle, A dazzle of sweet, A flutter of cute, From your head to your feet.

Celebrations: The Complete Book of American Holidays

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

The Closing of the American Mind

Welcome to Hartford. The poorest city in the wealthiest state in the richest country on earth.

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.

Free-Thought on the American Frontier

the flanger setting ... makes it sound as if the chord is being chewed over thoughtfully by a large genie accustomed to telling long, implausible stories

Guitar: An American Life