Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinfo…

Jonathan Kozol
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Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend, no personal reputation to secure. ✨ Jonathan Kozol (2005). The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, p.12, Broadway Books
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