To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Timothy Noah
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  1. Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

  2. Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

  3. In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

  4. Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

  5. Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

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