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For the life of me I cannot fathom why we expect so much from teachers and provide them so little in return.

— Bill Moyers

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Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition.

Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons.

A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion you're led to by the evidence.

Ed Murrow told his generation of journalists bias is okay as long as you don't try to hide it. So here, one more time, is mine: plutocracy and democracy don't mix.

"News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity."

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Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

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School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.

H. L. Mencken The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908)

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