"If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?"
-Paul Wellstone
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"Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.“
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"I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment."
-Paul Wellstone
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"The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society."
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"The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy."
-Paul Wellstone
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"I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power."
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"The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
-Richard Cobden
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
-Kent McCord
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
-Alonzo Mourning
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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