She wrote that it would be better to “build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.” ... Jimmy Carter said, “The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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Perhaps a barn, or an educational building on a church campus, or an inner-city arts center. ... She wrote that it would be better to “build schoolrooms for the boy, than cells and gibbets for the man.” ... Jimmy Carter said, “The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless ...
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"Better built schoolrooms for 'the boys,' "Eliza Cook once warned, "than cells and gibbets for 'the man. .... going to quit now by pointing out what the Secretary of Labor said to the Cabinet the other day: We have 1 million youngsters ...
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No-one could deny that in material terms we are disproportionately far better off now than we were then. ... The reality is that as a society we have to build prisons and build schools, but it is hard not to have sympathy with the view expressed by Eliza Cook in A Song For The Ragged Schools when she said...
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“Better build schoolrooms for the boy than cells and gibbets for the man” wrote Eliza Cook in 1853. That was the easy part. Certainly, 150 years later, ... But Eliza Cook would be disappointed to know that in the twenty-first century we still need to build cells for the man who has emerged from the schoolroom...
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Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. -; "And how many hours a day did you do lessons?" said Alice, ... Better build schoolrooms for 'the boy', Than cells and gibbets for 'the man'. --Eliza Cook (1818—1889); English poet. "A Song for the Ragged Schools" [1853]; The one real object of education is to have a man...
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I would have a better arm in my arsenal than mere intelligence; I would get a husband by easy surrender while the brunettes attempted it vainly by frontal assault. Men are not easily taken by ... Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. --Bible; "Galatians" 6:7 ; -; Hanging is too good for him, said Mr.
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"Professor Dewey," he said, "We have labored for 15 years to improve America's schools without success. Please tell me how we can create the kinds of schools our children need and deserve?" Dewey hesitated a moment and replied: "Well, ... Better build schoolrooms for "the boy" Than cells and gibbets for "the man."
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"Professor Dewey," he said, "We have labored for 15 years to improve America's schools without success. Please tell me how we can create the kinds of schools our children need and deserve?" ; Dewey hesitated a moment and replied: "Well, ... Better build schoolrooms for "the boy" Than cells and gibbets for "the man.";
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