Some choice observations

Both camps are wrong, not because government and free enterprise are bad, but because they’re irrelevant. The problems at school are personal. They’re in our homes, in the example we set for our children, and in our children’s expectations for themselves, their willingness to work, and their resolve to overcome the obstacles that all of us encounter, and that some of us encounter in greater measure.

Peter Berger Poor Elijah
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Henry Thoreau was my schoolboy idol. I admired the way he lived and the way he put words together. He didn’t have access to Twitter in the 19th century, but he could do more with 140 characters than anybody tweeting today. Of course, some people don’t...

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