{"id":44511,"date":"2014-08-21T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T15:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/talk-from-the-hand-and-the-wonders-of-the-internet.html"},"modified":"2014-08-25T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:36:23","slug":"talk-from-the-hand-and-the-wonders-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/21\/talk-from-the-hand-and-the-wonders-of-the-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Talk from the Hand and the Wonders of the Internet!"},"content":{"rendered":"
I discovered (because of a link error I was tracking down) that one of the entries in my WIST quotations site\u00a0is actually referenced in North Carolina's English Language Arts Common Core materials\u00a0as a text exemplar for 9-10th grade students. It's a portion of a speech by Learned Hand back in 1941.<\/p>\n

That's kind of cool. Hopefully when N Carolina rejiggers its ed standards to get rid of the Great Satan of Common Core (sigh), it will \u00a0still be seen as something worthwhile for Tarheel teens.<\/p>\n

(WIST Admin entry with a bit more detail:\u00a0http:\/\/wist.info\/admin\/26628<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Speech, “I Am an American Day,” New York (21 May 1941)<\/a>
\n The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the mind of other men and \n <\/p>\n

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I discovered (because of a link error I was tracking down) that one of the entries in my WIST quotations site\u00a0is actually referenced in North Carolina's English Language Arts Common Core materials\u00a0as a text exemplar for 9-10th grade students. It's a portion of a speech by Learned Hand back in 1941. 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