#ducati

There have been some good studies done in California with Hispanic parents where in the course of a year, they have changed their entire nutritional intake for the better. The kid becomes, in a sense, the bridge between the educational process and the home. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#been #better #between #bridge #california

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#faith #government #handing #instead #our

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#among #apartheid #confronted #education #educators

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#after #between #black #black and white #board

I am opposed to the use of public funds for private education. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#education #funds #i #i am #opposed

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#america #believe #child #education #equal

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#come #education #public #public education #racial

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

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#because #been #contaminated #educations #expensive

The dilemma of modern medicine, and the underlying central flaw in medical education and, most of all, in the training of interns, is the irresistible drive to do something, anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors, in the face of ignorance. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anything #central #dilemma #doctors #drive