"The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated."

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Source : Johnnetta B. Cole (2011). “Conversations: Straight Talk with America's Sister President”, p.169, Anchor

Johnnetta B. Cole

#Education Quotes #Reality Quotes #World Quotes

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”
“By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.”
“We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!”
“Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.”
“One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.”
“My sisters and I cannot spend any substantial time searching for Wickham, as we are each commanded by His Majesty to defend Hertfordshire from all enemies until such time as we are dead, rendered lame, or married.”

Source : Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”, p.252, Quirk Books
“Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky,”
“Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?”

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