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I Write Books To Change The World. Perhaps I Can Only Change One Little Piece Of That World. But If I Can Empower Teachers And Good Citizens To Give These Children, Who Are The Poorest Of The Poor, The Same Opportunity We Give Our Own Kids, Then I'll Feel My Life Has Been Worth It.

The White House, In Advancing The Agenda For A [school] "choice" Plan, Rests Its Faith On Market Mechanisms. What Reason Have The Black And Very Poor To Lend Their Credence To A Market System That Has Proved So Obdurate And So Resistant To Their Pleas At Every Turn?

Competitive Skills Are Desperately Needed By Poor Children In America, And Realistic Recognition Of The Economic Roles That They May Someday Have An Opportunity To Fill Is Obviously Important, Too. But There Is More To Life, And There Ought To Be Much More To Childhood, Than Readiness For Economic Functions.

Young Children Give Us Glimpses Of Some Things That Are Eternal.

I'd Love To Go Back And Teach Primary School. I Used To Teach Fourth Grade And Fifth Grade. I'd Love To Spend Several Years Teaching Kindergarten Or Maybe Third Grade.