The problem is fundamental. . . It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has … - Tracy Kidder

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In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

Tracy Kidder

The problem is fundamental. . . It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

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Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

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Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

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I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

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Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

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In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

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I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

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The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.

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