Marilynne RobinsonWe are in the process of disabling our most distinctive achievement - our educational system - in the name of making the country more like itself.
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The United States is becoming more like the nation it once was. It used to be a place where people came to succeed at their dreams; now they come here to fail. If you don’t succeed, you fail. No-one cares about your dream or what you want to do in life.
No one will stand by your side and support you, even if it means they get less of what they want for themselves. This is not the way of the world that we hoped America would be.
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