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Tracy Kidder

"Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid."

Source : Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Tracy Kidder

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“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
“What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.”
“Tell me why.â€ My voice shook. â€œTell me right now.”
“I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.”

Source : FaceBook post by Richard Ford from Nov 08, 2016
“The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the enormous power of human knowledge to the enrichment of our own lives and the shaping of a rational and civilized world order....It is the task of education, more than any other instrument of foreign policy to help close the dangerous gap between the economic and technological interdependence of the people of the world and their psychological, political and spiritual alienation.”

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“mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues”
“Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.”
“I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.”

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