"To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends."

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Source : Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.10, Beacon Press

Alfie Kohn

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“Shock is shock. Your body goes into shock, regardless of it being real blood or fake blood. The mind sends powerful messages to all the various glands and secretions in the body. It's impossible trying to act it; it just happens. It's a very important question: no acting.”
“Illustrators are usually illustrating something big or commercial if not outright advertising. It's a form of prostitution, but that's cool because we don't have any moral hang-up about it.”

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“When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.”
“What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.”
“In the wake of my talk with Earl, we had come to a mutual understanding about Lena, the only kind guys ever come to. Meaning, I hadnâ€™t brought it up, and they hadnâ€™t brought it up, and between us, we somehow all agreed to go on like this indefinitely. Donâ€™t ask, donâ€™t tell.”
“I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.”
“We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.”
“We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.”

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