I Once Made A Check Of All

The First Goal And Primary Function Of The U.s. Public School Is Not To Educate Good People, But Good Citizens. It Is The Function Which We Call - In Enemy Nations - 'state Indoctrination.'

Placing The Burden On The Individual To Break Down Doors In Finding Better Education For A Child Is Attractive To Conservatives Because It Reaffirms Their Faith In Individual Ambition And Autonomy. But To Ask An Individual To Break Down Doors That We Have Chained And Bolted In Advance Of His Arrival Is Unfair.

I Wrote The First Book, And I Thought People Would Say: 'separate And Unequal Schools In The City Of Boston? I Didn't Know That. Let's Go Out And Fix It.'

There Is Something Deeply Hypocritical In A Society That Holds An Inner-city Child Only Eight Years Old "accountable" For Her Performance On A High-stakes Standardized Exam But Does Not Hold The High Officials Of Our Government Accountable For Robbing Her Of What They Gave Their Own Kids Six Or Seven Years Before.

The Recklessness With Which We Sacrifice Our Sense Of Decency To Maximize Profit In The Factory Farming Process Sets A Pattern For Cruelty To Our Own Kind.