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Quotes from Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System — Chris Hedges

born 1956 United States

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Those who are endowed with a moral conscience refuse to commit crimes, even those sanctioned by the corporate state, because they do not in the end want to live with criminals—themselves.

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System (2011)

Those who meekly obey laws and rules imposed from the outside—including religious laws—are not moral human beings. The fulfillment of an imposed law is morally neutral. The truly educated make their own wills serve the higher call of justice, empathy and reason.

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System (2011)

I suspect that a major goal of the reform campaign is to make the work of a teacher so degrading and insulting that the dignified and the truly educated teachers will simply leave while they still retain a modicum of self-respect.

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chris Hedges (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.