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Plato

Quotations from Inner City Schools, Inequality, and the Fate of Civic Education

12 quotations in this session

“The tragedy is not only poverty. The tragedy is the absence of living examples.”
“The soul ascends through imitation.”
“He does not become what he has never seen.”
“Yes. But this does not mean schools are powerless.”
“It means schools must become counter-worlds. Places where children encounter realities larger than the immediate horizon of the street.”
“The imagination must be conquered before the street conquers it.”
“You cannot ask children to aspire upward if society hides civilization itself from them.”
“The city publicly rewards what it values.”
“The danger is confusing information with formation.”
“AI must become a guide toward deeper humanity — not merely a machine of distraction.”
“Education begins when the student learns to think, not merely consume.”
“No.”
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