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Mal Fletcher
"The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd."
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Mal Fletcher
#Ideas Quotes
#Absurd Quotes
#Values Quotes
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“Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.”
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“The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.”
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“A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.”
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“Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.”
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“self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...”
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“The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'”
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“Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.”
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“The biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power . It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism , to an irreducible dialogue (like that between king and prophet in Israel ), to antistatism, to a decentralizing of the relation, to an extreme relativizing of everything political, to an anti-ideology, to a questioning of all that claims either power or dominion (in other words, of all things political), and finally, if we may use a modern term, to a kind of " anarchism " (so long as we do not relate the term to the anarchist teaching of the nineteenth century).”
