Quote by Hugh Mackay
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard

The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see whats actually happening to our culture? – Hugh Mackay

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Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. – Hugh Mackay

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The underlying message of the Lancet article is that if you want to understand aggressive behaviour in children, look to the social and emotional environment in which they are growing up, and the values they bring to the viewing experience. – Hugh Mackay

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A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? – Hugh Mackay

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. – Plutarch

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Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. – John Locke

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The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when theyre two different things. – David Bailey

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The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire. – Leigh Hunt

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The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. . . The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal – Jean Baudrillard

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Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. – Publilius Syrus

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The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, Ill kill myself. All we need is another liar… I think hed like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does. – Helen Thomas

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