We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.
David HoggRead
When you have all these new police officers and resource officers coming into schools, what I'm worried is going to happen is we're going to increase the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately affects students of color and lower social status.
Interpretation
The quote highlights concerns about how increased police presence in schools may lead to negative outcomes for marginalized students.
David Hogg expresses his apprehension that the introduction of more police officers and resource officers in schools could contribute to a troubling trend known as the school-to-prison pipeline. This phenomenon disproportionately impacts students of color and those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, potentially criminalizing behaviors typical in youthful exploration rather than addressing underlying issues through support and education.
In practice
In a discussion about school safety policies at a town hall meeting.
We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.
People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn.
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.
... bums on the outside, libraries inside.
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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