How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.
Russell BakerThe twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
Russell BakerPeople seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell BakerKingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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