“Being a teacher is waging a war on ignorance. You
have to want to put in all those hours every day to grade, to plan an
interesting lesson to have 100 kids ask a million questions. But, in the end,
if you have kids leaving school, being critical, asking questions, reading the
newspaper — then you’ve won.
“Half of my class is going to be voting
in November. I want people who are voting for the first time to be thinking
when they’re pulling that lever. Doesn’t everybody?”
—Joe Kyle, social studies teacher, Parsippany (NJ) High School, criticized for
having his students debate U.S. Iraq policy, 2006.
• Editorial Comment: Thinkin’? What’s that got to do with politics?
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