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But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curr

But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. Were not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. – Jonathan Kozol

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During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. – Jonathan Kozol

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Education
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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. – Jonathan Kozol

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Experience
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I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. Its blasphemy. – Jonathan Kozol

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Christmas
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Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide theyre going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. Its just a given law. – David Byrne

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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that thats what the music is about. – Brian Eno

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Music

Theres something missing in the music industry today… and its music. Songs you hear dont last, its just product fed to you by the industry. – Jimmy Buffett

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Music

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. – Denis Waitley

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Im a private guy, and you dont want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You dont always pick the right path, but its there in your conscience. – Tim McGraw

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Love, she said, should be said more slowly, and ran from the house. Words could not catch her as such. Honesty is so slow, that is the trouble. – Author Unknown

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. – G.K. Chesterton

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