#mina

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. ↗

— William Glasser

#connecting #education #eliminating #improve #schooling

American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent were treated as obvious or self-evident everywhere on the planet. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#american #connections #conservatism #continued #depends

You have to know how to use the accident, how to recognise it, how to control it, and ways to eliminate it so that the whole surface looks felt and born all at once. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#born #control #eliminate #felt #how

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#conflict #dominance #geopolitical #iraq #manufactured

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#among #basis #betterment #between #black

I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#board #brought #dominant #everyone #i

Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions. ↗

— Serge Lang

#did #eliminate #essentially #hiv #screening

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#change #choose #domination #liberty #master