Children Enter School As Question Marks And

Information Is Now A Commodity That Can Be Bought And Sold, Or Used As A Form Of Entertainment, Or Worn Like A Garment To Enhance One's Status. It Comes Indiscriminately, Directed At No One In Particular, Disconnected From Usefulness; We Are Glutted With Information, Drowning In Information, Have No Control Over It, Don't Know What To Do With It.

The Past Is Strapped To Our Backs. We Do Not Have To See It; We Can Always Feel It. People Gather Bundles Of Sticks To Build Bridges They Never Cross. People In Distress Will Sometimes Prefer A Problem That Is Familiar To A Solution That Is Not.

School Has Never Really Been About Individualized Learning, But About How To Be Socialized As A Citizen And As A Human Being, So That We, We Have Important Rules In School, Always Emphasizing The Fact That One Is Part Of A Group.

In Russia, Writers With Serious Grievances Are Arrested, While In America They Are Merely Featured On Television Talk Shows, Where All That Is Arrested Is Their Development.

Build An "inclusive Narrative" That Goes Beyond Race, Class, Religion, Etc., So That All May Participate In The "the Great Debates".