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Quote for Today: Michelle Alexander
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July 23, 2018 by katmcdaniel

The wave of punitiveness that washed over the United States with the rise of the drug war and the get …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: children, criminalizing, drug war, education, guidance, Michelle Alexander, potential, prisoners, punitive, schools, Schools and the New Jim Crow, thrive, youth, zero tolerance
Quote for Today: L. P. Jacks
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March 4, 2018 by katmcdaniel

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: distinction, education, Education through Recreation, excellence, humanity, L. P. Jacks, labor, leisure, life, living, play, recreation, vision, work
Quote for Today: Robert M. Pirsig
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January 29, 2017 by katmcdaniel

That sounded right, and the more he thought about it the more right it sounded. Schools teach you to imitate. …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: education, experimentation, failure, grades, imitation, learning, originality, repressive, risk, Robert M. Pirsig, school, system, training, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Quote for Today: Jean Piaget
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January 27, 2017 by katmcdaniel

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: change, creativity, discovery, education, future, goal, humanity, invention, Jean Piaget, new, school, scientific, skeptical, verify
Quote for Today: Carl Sagan
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March 16, 2015 by katmcdaniel

If we can’t think for ourselves, if we’re unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: community, decency, education, empathy, freedom, humanity, humility, power, question, resilience, rights, science, teach, think
Signs of the Times: Isolation in Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro
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June 14, 2014 by katmcdaniel

Society changes constantly. How do we respond to the alienation and loneliness that result from these changes? Kokoro, which can be …
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Category: Experiences and Impressions, Exploring Culture | Tags: change, competition, education, empathy, humanity, Japan, Kokoro, Meiji period, modernity, Natsume Soseki, resilience, tradition, women
Quote for Today: Adam Braun
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May 16, 2014 by katmcdaniel

While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, “If you could have anything in …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: Adam Braun, anything, boy, community, connectedness, desire, dream, education, empathy, expression, moment, pencil, realization, streets

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