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[kokopopo]

Jonathon Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991):

According to our textbook rhetoric, Americans abhor the notion of a social order in which economic privilege and political power are determined by hereditary class. Officially, we have a more enlightened goal in sight: namely, a society in which a family's wealth has no

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[blue_by_you]

According to our textbook rhetoric

I'm afraid this is the truth that stands out the most. Rhetoric without action, no matter how good, is more diabolical than ignorance.

[kokopopo]

So true.