Word: inferior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...happily, most of us can, for food is one of the only arts which we don't, and can't, overintellectualize. Because we transfer our reactive mechanism from the mind/eye to the eye/nose/stomach/soul, our appreciation of the art is neither diminished by an inferior education nor a weak mind. There is room for the neophyte gourmet, the connoisseur, the glutton, the macrobiotic, the fat and the lean...
Since 1954 the nation has been committed to the principle that segregated education is inferior education; no study since then has refuted that concept. But as for busing as a solution, it is a hard political reality that the opposition is so strong that massive use of the practice will not soon be tolerated in the U.S. -unless the courts rule otherwise...
...bused past nearby white schools. Nor is the nightmare envisioned by Senator Stennis, that children would be "boxed up and crated and hauled around the city and the country like common animals," really true. But most parents understandably fear that their children will wind up in an inferior school and will be retarded by their teachers' efforts to help slower students. The idea that black children have suffered for more than a century from poor schooling, and that the only way to reverse this historical process is to ask white students to make sacrifices of their own, is hardly...
Ghetto children raised in ghetto schools cannot develop and display their aptitude in the same way that white students do. To refuse them special consideration is to condemn them to the self-perpetuating cycle of inferior education. In fact, the concept of compensatory help is well established in the armed forces and in industry. Progressive businesses, including IBM and General Motors, do not insist on conventional aptitude in hiring blacks; instead, they train them for jobs that the schools have not previously equipped them to handle...
...Brothers, your father, the President, will at all times be your friend and he will protect you and all his red children from bad people." Only last fall Ted Rushton of New Mexico's Gallup Independent wrote haughtily of "the inevitable clash of a superior culture with a vastly inferior culture...