Richard Mitchell
Richard Mitchell
Dr. Richard Mitchellwas a professor, first of English and later of classics, at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. He gained fame in the late 1970s as the founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian, a newsletter of opinion and criticism that ran until 1992, and wrote four books expounding his views on the relationships among language, education, and ethics...
ProfessionTrumpet Player
Date of Birth13 March 1930
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It's going to turn the land into a marsh for the people who live on the end of the street touching the river. We already get wetter than what other parts of the county are used to, but once you start building and moving all that dirt around I can only assume its going to impact those houses.
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I never even worked on (computers) out on the streets -- never even been on the Internet, ... I didn't even know how to turn them on.
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Literacy is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding, not out of received attitudes and values or emotional responses, however worthy, to make judgments.
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Green was shooting 3s left and right. Coach told me to guard him real tight. It was all desire and toughness. Our team has no superstars, but we have heart.
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We had to take it inside. The first half, we were all shooting up 3s and they weren't going in.
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We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim.
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We have a 15-year contractual agreement that was negotiated with Interface in 2001, ... I think the agreement was signed in January of 2002.
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We decided if they would let us march, we wouldn't overly confront them.
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Training is a good dog, a constant companion and an utterly loyal and devoted friend, and everyone should have one. Education is a nagging counselor. And, I am convinced, everyone does have one. It happens, however, that some nagging counselors have grown strong by a certain kind of nourishment. Others are weak and puny, even infantile, having never been nourished at all.
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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.
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When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?
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Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.
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Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.
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His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.