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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. – John Updike

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Essentialists hope that when students leave school, they will possess not only basic skills and an extensive body of knowledge, but also disciplined, practical minds, capable of applying schoolhouse lessons in the real world. – William C. Bagley

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If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. – William Glasser

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Until we get equality in education, we wont have an equal society. – Sonia Sotomayor

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All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield. – Earl Warren

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