Education
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- So is deficit reduction important? Of course, it is. But so is creating the millions of jobs we desperately need. So is making public colleges and universities tuition free.
- Schools have an obligation -- a legal obligation and a moral obligation -- to protect every student’s right to get an education free from discrimination, free from fear.
- There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering. Once you have liberation from a system that was designed for the beginning of the century, there’s nobody to blame.
- Dream big, but focus small on those day-to-day things that will get you to your goal.
- Community colleges should be free for those willing to work for it – because, in America, a quality education cannot be a privilege that is reserved for a few. I think it’s a right for everybody who’s willing to work for it.
- Must every story about campus rape panic begin with the standard caveat, ‘sexual assault on campus is a serious problem’?
- After Florida State, [we’re at] 90 school shootings since Sandy Hook. Newsflash to my colleagues – this isn’t normal. Do something.
- Boko Haram particularly targets schools because they are soft targets. And they represent everything the group is against - Western education, lifestyle and civilization.
- We as black people are never going to be successful - not because of you white people - but because of other black people…For some reason, we are brainwashed to think, ‘if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person.’ It's a dirty, dark secret in the black community.
- [In Pakistan], I had two options. One was not to speak and wait to be killed, and the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second.
- If they don't teach us civil disobedience, we will teach ourselves.
- I think that local school districts - not the federal government - should make the decision about how they teach science, biology, economics. I want my kids to be taught about evolution; I want my kids to be taught about other theories.