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When we say … that education in America is “failing,” it is because we don’t understand the institution. It is, in fact, succeeding enormously. It grows daily, hourly, in power and wealth, and that precisely because of our accusations of failure. The more we complain against it, the more it can lay claim to our power and wealth, in the name of curing those ills of which we complain.
— Richard Mitchell
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Today is Wednesday, July 12th, the 193rd day of 2023. There are 172 days left in the year. It is Etch A Sketch Day, National Pecan Pie Day, and National Simplicity Day.
On This Day
In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts.
In 1862, Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.
In 1917, the Bisbee Deportation occurred. A deputized posse kidnapped and expelled about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders from Bisbee, Arizona.
In 1948, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion ordered the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla.
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