Nat Hentoff Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• I have been in schools around the country, and I have written on education for years. Once, I was once doing a profile on Justice William Brennan and I was in his chambers, and Brennan asked, "How do we get the words of the Bill of Rights into the lives of the students?" Well, it is not difficult. You tell them stories.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, School, Rights

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

• I was lecturing at the Columbia Journalism School of Education. I asked them about what was happening to the Fourth Amendment. I said, "By the way, do you know what is in the Fourth Amendment?" One student responded, "Is that the right to bear arms?" It's hard to believe these are bright students.

  Nat Hentoff

  Believe, School, Arms

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

• Even civics classes have almost disappeared from the schools. So things have not gotten any better.

  Nat Hentoff

  School, Class, Civics

  Source: www.rutherford.org

• [A.J. Muste] was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.

  Nat Hentoff

  New York, School, Church

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

  Nat Hentoff

  Latin, School, Boston

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wall, School, Years

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

• It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't give a damn about - how we felt, what was - things like at home. I mean, this goes against the current grain. All they thought about was: `You're here. You made the exam. You can do the work. And if you can't, we'll throw you out.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Latin, Home

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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