I remember that our deportment in Primary was not always as it should be. I had a lot of energy and found it difficult to sit patiently in a class.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.
Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.
Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy.
When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.
Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
Washington has become this place that people don't leave. It has become this permanent feudal class.
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.