"If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure."

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Source : Lisa Delpit (2012). “"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children”, p.23, New Press, The

Lisa Delpit

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“I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.”
“When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org
“Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.”
“How is it... that the Son and Holy Spirit are not co-unoriginate with the Father, if they are co-eternal with Him? Because they are from Him, though not after Him. 'Being unoriginate' necessarily implies 'being eternal,' but 'being eternal' does not entail 'being unoriginate,' so long as the Father is referred to as origin. So because They have a cause They are not unoriginate... a cause is not necessarily prior to its effects... Because time is not involved, They are to that extent unoriginate... for the sources of time are not subject to time.”
“There is no fool like an educated fool...”
“Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.”

Source : William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”
“If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle”

Source : John Adams, Benjamin Rush (1892). “Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]”
“Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.”

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