"The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance."

-- John Taylor Gatto

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“Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'”
“The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.”
“Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.”
“I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.”
“What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?”

Source : Antony Flew, John Shosky (1998). “Philosophical Essays”, p.43, Rowman & Littlefield
“Schools often get the teachers they deserve!”
“In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.125, New Directions Publishing
“The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.”

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