The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.
A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.
I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.
When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet.
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.
Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.
A mob is the method by which good citizens turn over the law and the government to the criminal or irresponsible classes.
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my acting class on Saturday.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man.
The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes.
