#cher

Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#class #deprived #indicate #keep #kids

I make my way back whistling. Gerry nods towards Mrs Brady who is standing beside the trolleys. Morning, Mrs Brady, I say cheerfully. I push her provisions out to the car. Things are something terrible, she says. You can't trust anybody. No. It's come to a sorry pass. It has. There's hormones in the beef and tranquillizers in the bacon. There's men with breasts and women with mickeys. All from eating meat. Now. I steer a path between a crowd of people while she keeps step alongside. Can you believe it - they're feeding the pigs Valium. If you boil a bit of bacon you have to lie down afterwards. Dear oh dear. Yes, I nod. The thought of food makes me ill. The pigs are getting depressed in those sheds. If they get depressed they lose weight. So they tranquillize them. Where will it end? I don't know, Mrs Brady, I say. I begin filling the boot. That's why I started buying lamb. Then along came Chernobyl. Now you can't even have lamb stew or you'll light up at night! I swear. And when they've left you with nothing safe to eat, next thing they come along and tell you you can't live in your own house. I haven't heard of that one, Mrs Brady. Listen to me. She took my elbow. It could all happen that you're in your own house and the next thing is there's radiation bubbling under the floorboards. What? It comes right at you through the foundations. Watch the yogurts. Did you hear of that? No. I saw it in the Champion. Did you not see it in the Champion? I might have. No wonder we're not right. I brought the lid of the boot down. She sits into the car very decorously and snaps her bag open on her lap. She winds down the window and gives me 50p for myself and £1 for the trolley. ↗

— Dermot Healy

#food #healy #humour #ireland #scéal-grinn

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#became #good #hit #i #make

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#good #guy #intends #pitcher #throw

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#automobile #because #come #debate #emphasize

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#i #own #speak #standards #teachers

Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #competition #education #i #improve

My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#goal #old #sense #struggle #teachers

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#never #should #state #teachers #themselves