I Once Made A Check Of All

I Think A Moment Of Critical Energy Has Suddenly Emerged. But Moments Like This Come And Go Unless We Seize Them At Their Height.

If You Could Lead Through Testing, The U.s. Would Lead The World In All Education Categories. When Are People Going To Understand You Don't Fatten Your Lambs By Weighing Them?

Children, Of Course, Don't Understand At First That They Are Being Cheated. They Come To School With A Degree Of Faith And Optimism, And They Often Seem To Thrive During The First Few Years. It Is Sometimes Not Until The Third Grade That Their Teachers Start To See The Warning Signs Of Failure. By The Fourth Grade Many Children See It Too.

At That Time, I Had Recently Finished A Book Called Amazing Grace, Which Many People Tell Me Is A Very Painful Book To Read. Well, If It Was Painful To Read, It Was Also Painful To Write. I Had Pains In My Chest For Two Years While I Was Writing That Book.

If You Grow Up In The South Bronx Today Or In South-central Los Angeles Or Pittsburgh Or Philadelphia, You Quickly Come To Understand That You Have Been Set Apart And That There's No Will In This Society To Bring You Back Into The Mainstream.