"People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus."

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Source : Martin Mayer (1963). “Where, When, and why: Social Studies in American Schools”, New York : Harper & Row

Martin Mayer

#School Quotes #People Quotes #Hearing Quotes

“Live, let live, and help live”
“When you're looking through a magazine, what makes you stop and think is when you see an image and imagine the narrative that is going on inside of it. Those are the ones I make into paintings.”

Source : Interview with Stella McCartney, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.
“Suppression of the feminine principal has enabled The Ego to gain absolute supremacy in the collective human psyche”
“Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.”
“History is an argument without end.”
“Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.”
“Write what you’re scared about.”
“Her seductive power, however, did not lie in her looks [...]. In reality, Cleopatra was physically unexceptional and had no political power, yet both Caesar and Antony, brave and clever men, saw none of this. What they saw was a woman who constantly transformed herself before their eyes, a one-woman spectacle.Her dress and makeup changed from day to day, but always gave her a heightened, goddesslike appearance. Her words could be banal enough, but were spoken so sweetly that listeners would find themselves remembering not what she said but how she said it.”

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