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Robert Wisdom

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Total quotes: 2

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Robert Wisdom

Birthname

Birthday: September 14, 1953

Birthplace: Washington, D.C., U.S

Educated At: Columbia University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Television Actor, Film Actor, Actor

Total quotes: 2

“You put a textbook in front of these kids, put a problem on the blackboard, teach them every problem in some statewide test, it won't matter. None of it. 'Cause they're not learning for our world; they're learning for theirs. They know exactly what it is they're training for and what it is everyone expects them to be. It's not about you or us or the test or the system. It's what they expect of themselves. Every single one of them know they're headed back to the corners. Their brothers and sisters, shit, their parents. They came through these same classrooms. We pretended to teach them, they pretended to learn and where'd they end up? Same damn corners. They're not fools, these kids. They don't know our world but they know their own. They see right through us.”

— Howard "Bunny" Colvin, The Wire, Season 4: Misgivings

Tagged: Ghetto Life, Public Education, Hopelessness

“ Middle management means that you got just enough responsibility to listen when people talk, but not so much you can't tell anybody to go fuck themselves.”

— Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin, The Wire, Season 3: Straight and True

Tagged: Middle Management, Responsibility, Go Fuck Yourself

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