"Public schools in the second half of the 20th century and in the early years of this one were internment camps for the mind. All that labor done by those generations of students and teachers was largely for nothing. So our generation of teachers, students and critics are in essence building on the graveyard of dead thoughts. We are pioneers in the Greek sense. But, lest we become too ungrateful, we should recognize our few and humble predecessors who came of age in those hellish decades, and who turned the page, with great historical insight, for us to write on it."
