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Most Teachers Have Little Control Over School Policy Or Curriculum Or Choice Of Texts Or Special Placement Of Students, But Most Have A Great Deal Of Autonomy Inside The Classroom. To A Degree Shared By Only A Few Other Occupations, Such As Police Work, Public Education Rests Precariously On The Skill And Virtue Of The People At The Bottom Of The Institutional Pyramid.

The Problem Is Fundamental... It Is As If A Secret Committee, Now Lost To History, Has Made A Study Of Children And, Having Figured Out What The Greatest Number Were Least Disposed To Declared That All Of Them Should Do It.

What Interests Me Is Trying To Catch The Reflection Of The Human Being On The Page. I'm Interested In How Ordinary People Live Their Lives

Among A Coward's Weapons, Cynicism Is The Nastiest Of All

God Gives Us Humans Everything We Need To Flourish, But He's Not The One Who's Supposed To Divvy Up The Loot. That Charge Was Laid Upon Us