President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
My grandmother, who taught me how to cook, didn't know how to read.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology.
My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
