We put our kids to fifteen years of quick-cut advertising, passive television watching, and sadistic video games, and we expect to see emerge a new generation of calm, compassionate, and engaged human beings?

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"I am what I have become."

- Sidney Poitier

Self-awareness

"I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life."

- Sidney Poitier

Integrity

"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values."

- Sidney Poitier

Integrity

"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed."

- Sidney Poitier

Personal Growth

"You don’t have to become something you’re not to be better than you were."

- Sidney Poitier

Personal Growth

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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."

- John Graham

Education

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

- Mark Twain

Education

"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

Education

"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."

- Kotomi Ichinose

Education