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Yamacraw is beautiful because man has not yet had time to destroy this beauty.
Pat Conroy never fails to tell his stories in ways that make me feel that I am there. I watched as he struggled to teach the children the beauty of the simplest things, yet most important, in life. He fought the “system” that had condemned these island children to ignorance. Pat “Conrack” saw their potential in every child. He opened the world to them and gave them hope as only Pat Conroy could. He fought the system and lost but all his students won. I highly recommend this book which is overrunning with life’s true lessons.
The imprint of Dachau branded me indelibly and caused me to suffer the miscarriage of my hopeful philosophy. If man was good, then Dachau could never have happened. Simple as
Nor could all the paint and clay of the Louvre dim the memory of one photograph: of a mother leading her small children to the gas chamber.
being able to tell me anything about themselves, they were telling me everything.
Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his
No man or woman has the right to humiliate children, even in the sacrosanct name
of education. No one has the right to beat children with leather straps, even under the sacred auspices of all school boards in the world.
because a person is black does not mean that he or she thinks black or is proud to be black.
Slowly, the awareness came to me that no matter what happened, my struggles and efforts could not eradicate the weight and inalienable supremacy of two hundred years: the children of slaves could not
converse or compete with the offspring of planters, the descendants of London barristers, the progeny of sprawling, upward-climbing white America. And slavery was still a reality, considering that none of my students grew up in homes where books flourished, where ideas fluttered, and theories dwelt comfortably in dinner-table discussions.
“Cold as a witch’s titty,”
that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.
Feel for once that education is about people—not figures.” I then recited the
