More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.
The better the teacher, the better the future of America.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.
Not only are most of our citizens fathomlessly ignorant of the glories of American literature, a fast-growing percentage of our students are no longer taught much about any works of American art, be they novels, paintings, symphonies or ballets.
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Nobody's lesser or greater; that's what our Constitution is about.
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.