"The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else. This fragmented approach yields effective mathematics education not for the many but for the few primarily those who are independently motivated and who will learn under any conditions."

-- Lynn Steen

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“It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money.... If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.”
“Sister, they send you out for one and you bring back two... and a half. Such a clever girl.”
“The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.”
“I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.”
“When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.”
“(Sarah Palin's) greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
“The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.”
“Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.”

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