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“Strictly speaking, no person who believes that wars between classes and nations are inevitable is fit to be in charge of the destiny of children. To believe in the unity of the human race and get children to believe it in early youth would mean the creation of that unity and the end of war.”

Believe Humans Mean Children Persons War Ends Nations Race Class Destiny Creation Youth Fit Unity Inevitable Human Race

Author:Dora Russell

“I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.”

World Trying Whole School Young Stuff Bits Hurt Class Middle Youth Drama Determined Theatre Middle Class Usual Hurt Me Sociable It Really Hurts Youth Theatre

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.”

Ifs States Use Poor Class Rich Talent Youth Genius

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State

“And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.”

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies).”

Ifs America Young Class Youth Conversation Heavy Silly Dull Foolishness Privileged Young Ladies

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans

“To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.”

“Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.”

“Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'”

People Thinking Today Young Race Class Roles Teach Issues Youth Students Sacred Gender Immigration Propaganda Global Warming One Time Educator Trinity Politically Correct Hitler Youth

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.”

Ifs Way Should Shows School Next House Parent Acting Class Teacher Youth Drama Lucky Sunday Ritual Opera Classroom Saturday Monday Curb Disruptive After School Opera House Drama Class

Author:David Wenham

“My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes at the age of five (you would never guess though) and then I went on to join my local theatre group, Glantawe Players, at the age of eight and then Swansea Amateur Dramatics Society. I then joined the National Youth Music Theatre, so I really can't remember a time when I wasn't interested in Musical Theatre!”

Age School Remember Parent Class Roles Five Player Groups Youth Bears Musical Eight Theatre Locals Nursery Dance Class Polar Bears Musical Theatre Nursery School

Author:Francesca Jackson

“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.”

Age Law Opportunity Parent Born Community Behinds Class Policy Youth Color Structure Bars Permanent Guarantees Locked Trapped Cages Ghetto Guarantees That Class Status

Author:Michelle Alexander

“The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about things more deeply than I had before. It disillusioned me completely and forever about the government. And it made me aware that the media and the government lied almost as a matter of course. But it also opened my eyes to what was really going on in America.”

Thinking Made War Matter Government Eye America Courses Evil Class Forever Media Youth Vietnam Bores Working Class Lied Vietnam War Disillusioned

Author:Michael Yates

“Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.”

Stills Courses Class Cases Youth Conservative Radical Working Class Sympathetic

Author:Michael Yates

“Ken Griffey changed the game, but he also represented pop culture and the youth - how he wore his hat backwards, how he swung the bat and walked off...he brought energy to the game, class to the game. He was kind of the first person I really watched. He was a big influence.”

Firsts Kind Persons Bigs Culture Games Energy Class Influence Changed Youth Pops Hats Bats Backwards Pop Culture First Person

Author:Russell Wilson

“Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.”

Ifs World Different Seems School Culture Universe Class Morning Player Middle Youth Despite Get Up Middle Class Parallels Caps Cds Different Cultures Nike Sony Parallel Universe Levi's Cd Players

Book:No Logo

Source: No Logo

“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.”

People Mind Would Be Law Purpose Education Class Learning Wise Youth Generous Expenses Humane Extravagant Public Education Lower Class Liberal Education

Book:Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife

Source: Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife