#ear

When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis. ↗

— Anna Kournikova

#girl #hair #her #i #like

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. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#amazing #book #called #chest #finished

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#almost #been #blame #cases #children

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less. ↗

— Robert Trout

#doing #fear #less #little #more

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#advantage #behind #child #congress #created

Consider what it is like to go into a new classroom and to see before you suddenly, and in a way you cannot avoid recognizing, the dreadful consequences of a year's wastage of so many lives. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#before #cannot #classroom #consequences #consider

Governor Romney has said nothing about preschool. I think that giving the poorest kids in America wonderful preschool, and three years of it, starting when they are two-and-a-half, is absolutely crucial. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#absolutely #america #crucial #giving #governor

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british empire #british press #defeats #empire #forgets

Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness, and the future of life on earth are rarely so much in your own hands as when you sit down to eat. ↗

— John Robbins

#environment #food #health #food

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#been #bombing #books #check #classroom