Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they’ve purchased. Failure doesn’t enter into anyone’s calculations. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they’re too expensive. So they’re given to the teachers, who probably need them more. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence takes us unawares. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic system it upheld. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty – and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline – on the course, at any rate. That discipline was the source of his power. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression. Sarah Churchwell Read Quote
