#progressive

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime. ↗

— Caroline Pratt

#education #progressive-education #education

From the will of a freedom-fighter, Farzad Kamangar: "Is it possible to be a teacher and not show the path to the sea to the little fish of the country? Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet? … I cannot imagine witnessing the pain and poverty of the people of this land and fail to give our hearts to the river and the sea, to the roar and the flood. ↗

— Samad Beh-Rang

#pedagogy #progressive #ruby-emam #the-little-black-fish #freedom

I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#communist #doctrines #fed #fed up #go

If you look back today over the last 25 years, it is a fact that we have had a progressive degeneration of our intelligence community in general; in particular in the field of human intelligence. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#community #degeneration #fact #field #general

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bank #bosses #british #daily #dodge

We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#credible #economy #fairer #labour #liberal

I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#believe #choose #equality #fiscally #i

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#always #fulfilment #held #imperfect #instruments

If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#depends #few #going #legs #make

I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered. ↗

— Tom Hayden

#any #clear #did #electoral #ever