quotes about Public Education

“Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.19, Faber & Faber

“The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief”

“I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.”

“The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.”

“When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.”

Source : Song: What If Jesus Comes Back Like That, Album: I Think About You, 1995

“I mean, we do believe in due process in America. I thought we did.”

“Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.”

“Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers.”

Source : Megan McMorris, Pam Houston (2006). “Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives”, p.8, Seal Press

“I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.”

“Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.”