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“Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.”

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William R. Ferris

William R. Ferris is an American author born on February 5, 1942. He is renowned for his research on the history and culture of the American South, particularly focusing on music, folk art, and racial relations. more

“As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed.”

“• As society rapidly changes, individuals will have to be able to function comfortably in a world that is always in flux. Knowledge will continue to increase at a dizzying rate. This means that a content-based curriculum, with a set body of information to be imparted to students, is entirely inappropriate as a means of preparing children for their adult roles.”

World Mean Children Body Able Individual Roles Information Students Adults Function Increase Rate Preparing Curriculum Inappropriate Flux

Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.”

Doe Home Kids School Teacher Indoctrination School System

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“Fascination is a key to productivity; it unites experiences; it is even its own reward.”

Keys Rewards Productivity Fascination

Author:Erving Polster

“We say that the words were smooth, caressing, hard, sharp, and so on: all words that refer to body touching. Indeed we can kill or elate with words as body experiences.”

Hard Body Touching Smooth

Author:Humberto Maturana

“Words were medicine; they were magic and invisible. They came from nothing into sound and meaning. They were beyond price; they could neither be bought nor sold.”

Sound Magic Medicine Invisible

Author:N. Scott Momaday

“A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person.”

Ifs Persons Goal Ten Instance Commandments Vague Impressive Ten Commandments Very Impressive

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.”

Years Has Beens Art Ideas Values Given Music Is Treatment

Author:RZA

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