"Mindset changes are not happening from change in legislation. Like desegregation. We legally got rid of legal segregation, but schools are still segregated. You can demand people have better math understanding, but it depends how you interpret math understanding, and what you want it for, and if you think everybody can and should have that."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Deborah Meier

#School Quotes #Math Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.”
“The idea's the idea: It's about what you do, and not who you are.”
“Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.”

Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.156, Hachette UK
“I've been singing for a really long time and I love a lot of genres, but country just seemed like the best fit. The people in that genre are just so nice and welcoming. And that seemed so appealing. Also my voice fit it and seemed like the way to go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've still got a twinkle in me.”
“I'd rather have more heart than talent any day.”
“I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.”
“Nothing ever goes away.”

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