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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

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Bill Moyers talked with Sara Lawrence Lightfoot about education and the remarkable story of her mother for the 1988 series, A WORLD OF IDEAS.

We must develop a more realistic view of the roles that schools can play. It isn't only up to schools to undo racism and social privilege and poverty. It is ver ymuch a part of their responsibilities, but other institutions have to participate in that process as well.

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