What we need is a gigantic, messy community conversation about what is teaching and learning for the 21st century. We need to engage communities.
BILL AYERSImperialism or globalization – I don’t have to care what it’s called to hate it.
More Bill Ayers Quotes
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I didn’t kill innocent people.
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I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.
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I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that’s always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.
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Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.
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And afterwards the head of the group got to the microphone and said, I’m surprised that I agree with almost everything you said, but I’m worried that you’re a big government guy.
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Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
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Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, “How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?” It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer–a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles.
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It was the Democratic Party, it was the Presidential election. We elected a president [Barack Obama]; we didn’t elect a king. So all the speculation in the next three months.
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I think I am a radical. I have never deviated from that. By radical, I mean someone trying to go to the root of things.
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
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Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.
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Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting – it’s exciting to be in that dialogue.
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[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he’s saying, I’m not for gay marriage because I’m a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know,
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But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.
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Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.
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