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“I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.”

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American singer, actress, and model, known for her distinctive voice and fashionable image. Eartha Kitt was born on January 17, 1927, and passed away on December 25, 2008. She achieved significant success in music, theater, and film. more

“We've increasingly lost that sense of community, of the notion that there is something we contribute to and benefit from that is called the common good. I think I would date the beginnings of that loss to the Reagan administration and to the notion that somehow we were all separate individuals who only ought to be interested in ourselves.”

Thinking Individual Community Loss Common Common Good

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“The common good is the notion of shared collective responsibility and reciprocity. It's that that we've lost.”

Common Responsibility Common Good Reciprocity

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and only the teachers' academic freedom can protect them because there will always be people who disagree with or disapprove of the ideas they are trying to convey.”

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“There are students whose religious upbringing is going to make them feel uncomfortable in a class where certain kinds of secular ideas are presented. There are students whose ideas about history or sexuality are going to be similarly challenged to question, to affirm or to change those ideas. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be exposed to them; that's why they're at school. That's why they come to university: to be taught how to think well and critically about material that they're being presented with. But it's the teacher who is certified to teach them how to do that.”

Thinking Kind Mean School Religious Teach Teacher Students Sexuality Uncomfortable Secular Upbringing

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“Freedom of speech is not an academic value. Accuracy of speech is an academic value; completeness of speech is an academic value; relevance of speech is an academic value. Each of these is directly related to the goal of academic inquiry: getting a matter of fact right.”

Values Goal Academic Freedom Of Speech Relevance Accuracy Matter Of Fact

Author:Stanley Fish

“Freedom of speech is about expressing your opinion, however bad or good, however right or wrong, and being able to defend it and argue it and be argued with about it in public forums. But that's not what academic freedom is about. That's not what the classroom is about.”

Opinion Arguing Academic Classroom Freedom Of Speech

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“If the students don't want to learn about evolution, they shouldn't be in the course. A biology course that teaches creationism is not a science course, it's a religion course. So the students demanding that creationism be given credence in that course are out of line and are denying the academic freedom of the professor. They are calling into question the scientific basis of the material that's being presented. And students are not in a position to do that.”

Teach Students Evolution Biology Academic

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“I think what is being pointed out by African-Americans is that from slavery forward they have been living in a supposed democracy which treats them as less than other citizens, less than whites in the society. And I think that pointing out that there are structures of discrimination in the society, deeply rooted racist structures, that segregate housing, that send black children to ill-equipped schools, that discriminate in the workplace - these are truths about our society that must be faced.”

Thinking Children School Black Democracy Slavery Discrimination Racist Workplace Pointing

Author:Joan Wallach Scott

“When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like a run-on sentence, you never pause. You're always grabbing something. You're eating in front of the television. You're out grazing with your friends, and you're learning and digesting the values of the fast-food culture. And that's what I really believe is destroying this world. We've been indoctrinated from early childhood that more is better.”

World Believe Mean Kids Values Culture Imagine Childhood Eating Life Is Like Early Childhood

Author:Alice Waters

“It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.”

Interesting Poverty Technology Hunger

Author:Alice Waters

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