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Well, Teachers Have Been Profoundly Demoralized In Recent Years And Are Often Treated With Contempt By Politicians. There's A Great Deal Of Reckless Rhetoric In Washington About The Mediocrity Of The Teaching Profession - And I Don't Find That To Be True At All.

Instead Of Seeing These Children For The Blessings That They Are, We Are Measuring Them Only By The Standard Of Whether They Will Be Future Deficits Or Assets For Our Nation's Competitive Needs.

Children Are Not Simply Commodities To Be Herded Into Line And Trained For The Jobs That White People Who Live In Segregated Neighborhoods Have Available.

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.'

By Far The Most Important Factor In The Success Or Failure Of Any School, Far More Important Than Tests Or Standards Or Business-model Methods Of Accountability, Is Simply Attracting The Best-educated, Most Exciting Young People Into Urban Schools And Keeping Them There.