"The premium so often put in schools upon external "discipline," and upon marks and rewards, upon promotion and keeping back, are the obverse of the lack of attention given to life situations in which the meaning of facts, ideas, principles, and problems is vitally brought home."

-- John Dewey

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“When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.”

Source : "Dirty Dancing: The Secrets Behind Its Sexy TV Makeover". Interview with Angel Cohn, www.tvguide.com. December 6, 2006.
“You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers must treat prisoners with dignity. What about your dedicated soldiers that have helped fight in Afghanistan and Iraq? They're living in tents and our soldiers are living in tents. So it's OK for soldiers to live in tents, in hot tents, but it's wrong for inmates?”
“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
“When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement”
“Be patient. Relax and trust. Let go. Then, let go some more.”
“The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.”

Source : Jerome Frank (1977). “A man's reach: the philosophy of Judge Jerome Frank”, Greenwood Pub Group
“It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position”
“The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.”

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