Donald Johns, University of California, Davis
"If there is such a thing as 'America' . . . it is because . . . fathers and mothers have passed on . . . some distinctive information. . . . If this information were no longer transmitted succcessfully, 'America' as we know it would no longer exist. Neither words carved in stone nor constitutions and laws written on paper can preserve a way of life, unless the consciousness of people supports their meaning."
--Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jane McCormack, "The Influence of Teachers" (Phi Delta Kappan, February 1986, pp. 415-419. In Kaleidoscope:Readings in Education, Kevin Ryan and James M. Cooper. Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
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