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Diane Ravitch Quotes

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1938

Topics

Education Past Ideas American Been

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

Good Passion People Grow Learn Way

I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.

Work Time Free Next Free Time Going

My advice is to make acting your second career choice.

Advice Career Choice Acting Your

Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Walls School Prison Lights Metal

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

Business Music Ugly Me Evil Drive

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

Family Poverty Year Two Earn Line

The Rice Dream rice milk is like a savior in my life, and I couldn't live without it. The Earth Balance soy butter is so good you could eat it with a spoon.

Life Good Live Balance My Life You

My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.

Family Football Job House Play Only

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

Political Enough You Powerful Want

You've got to know what you put in your body. That's it.

You Body Know Your Body Got Your

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

Good Process Doing Trying You Want

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Work Art Day Law Literature Enough

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