Ali Smith Quotes
What are we doing in the world that we are denying people the right to an open education? And we are denying it by making education something you have to pay for so drastically. How are people supposed to afford this?
Smith, Ali. Public Library and Other Stories. Hamish Hamilton, 2015.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become quite atheistic.
Stalin was then only 26 years old. This was more than a decade BEFORE the Russian Revolution and Stalin was a young left wing revolutionary planning how to bring about a revolution and how the society should operate thereafter. He was then much the youthful, intellectual, Georgian idealist. The Russian upper class all spoke Russian and usually French and English as well. But the working class only spoke a single language—their native language which was for huge numbers of Russians, not Russian. It was Ukrainian, Georgian, and many others.
At the time, less than 10% of the population graduated from college and girls were a very small fraction of that. Culturally many families did not understand the value of college, some religious figures railed against college especial for girls (see {637315}), and few families could afford college. 70 years later, there was federal and often state college tuition assistance, over 30% of the young people graduated from college and girls mad up over half of the graduates. But that started with the effort of people like Mrs. Roosevelt.
Ali Smith CBE FRSL is a Scottish author, playwright, academic and journalist. Sebastian Barry described her in 2016 as "Scotland's Nobel laureate-in-waiting".
