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English 101

Unit 2: On Being Educated

Another Brick in the Wall?

Andrew DeBlanco

"Knowledge of the past ... helps citizens develop the capacity to think critically about the present--an indispensable attribute of a healthy democracy."

Mike Rose

"With hindsight I realize how layered and important that knowledge was.

It enabled me to do things in the world. I could browse bohemian bookstores in far-off, mysterious Hollywood."

John Taylor Gatto

Malcolm X

"I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library."

"Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling 6 hours a day,

5 days a week, 9 months a year, for 12 years.

Is this deadly routine really necessary?"

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Notes

Michael Moore

"A nation that not only churns out illiterate students BUT GOES OUT OF ITS WAY TO REMAIN IGNORANT AND STUPID is a nation that should not be running the world..."

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