"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives." -Jackie Robinson
"You might be locked into a world not of your own making, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities." -Barack Obama
"Now, instead of education for social criticism and independent thinking, it is education for socialization, social control, and creation of human capital." -Ronald W. Evans
"You might be locked into a world not of your own making, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities." -Barack Obama
"Now, instead of education for social criticism and independent thinking, it is education for socialization, social control, and creation of human capital." -Ronald W. Evans
"But history is more than just an academic subject; it is the reference point-an aspect of identity-from which people derive a sense of themselves, their communities, and their place in the world." -Terrie Epstein
Student Success = 25% IQ + 25% Opportunity and Experience + 50% Self Esteem
"Education must keep broad ideals before it, and never forget that it is dealing with Souls and not with Dollars"
- W. E. B. Du Bois
"Our national safety lies in the general intelligence of our citizens."
- Boyd H. Bode
“Knowing and seeing what is happening in the world today, I don’t think that there is much of anything that one can do about it. But there is one little thing, it seems to me, that a man owes to himself. He can look bravely at this horrible totalitarian reptile and, while doing so, discipline his dread, his fear, and study it coolly, observe every slither and convolution of its sensuous movements and note down with calmness the pertinent facts. In the face of the totalitarian danger, these facts can help a man to save himself; and he may then be able to call the attention of others around him to the presence and meaning of this reptile and its multitudinous writhings.”
- Richard Wright, “The Outsider,” p. 367
"A human being, young or old, is not a warehouse of information or skills, and an education system which treats children like warehouses is not only depriving them of education but crippling their natural capacity to learn. Particularly in a world of rapidly changing information and skills, learning how to learn is more important than learning specific skills and facts."
- Grace Lee Boggs, "Education: The Great Obsession," p. 70 (1969)
"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation for your country, and a finer world to live in."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied. When the culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a soulless society. This process produces alienation – perhaps the most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society."
- King, 1986a, p. 644
"Creativity is the antidote for violence and destruction. Art is our most human expression, our voice to communicate our stories, to challenge injustice and the misrepresentations of mainstream media, to expose harsh realities and engender even more powerful hope, a force to bring diverse people together, a tool to rebuild our communities, and a weapon to win this struggle for universal liberation.
- Alixa and Naima of Climbing Poetree and former Blackout Arts Collective members
"A human being, young or old, is not a warehouse of information or skills, and an education system which treats children like warehouses is not only depriving them of education but crippling their natural capacity to learn. Particularly in a world of rapidly changing information and skills, learning how to learn is more important than learning specific skills and facts."
- Grace Lee Boggs, "Education: The Great Obsession," p. 70 (1969)
"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation for your country, and a finer world to live in."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"When an individual is no longer a true participant, when he no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied. When the culture is degraded and vulgarity enthroned, when the social system does not build security but induces peril, inexorably the individual is impelled to pull away from a soulless society. This process produces alienation – perhaps the most pervasive and insidious development in contemporary society."
- King, 1986a, p. 644
"Creativity is the antidote for violence and destruction. Art is our most human expression, our voice to communicate our stories, to challenge injustice and the misrepresentations of mainstream media, to expose harsh realities and engender even more powerful hope, a force to bring diverse people together, a tool to rebuild our communities, and a weapon to win this struggle for universal liberation.
- Alixa and Naima of Climbing Poetree and former Blackout Arts Collective members
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