"The job of the school is to..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.
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“Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.”
“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.”
“As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free.”
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“Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.”
“The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.”
“There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.”