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Whether or not it needed to happen, I'm still convinced it needed to happen.

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What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

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You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

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Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me. ' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.

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Education is the thing. This black-white bit - I don't deal with people that way. I deal with it as if you are another individual. If you do something that perturbs me or aggravates me, I do not think you've done it because I'm black.

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You can't find me 20 children in Chicago, I don't care which section you go in - you can be on Michigan Avenue or here - and they won't be able to tell you that y is a vowel when it's the final syllable in a word, as in Nancy and icy. And no one bothers to teach the rules anymore - "i before e except after c. "

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People have to live by rules in the world. Why do we pretend in school that they don't?

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