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.

Howard "Bunny" Colvin

The Wire

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Inner city issues Education

Speaker

Howard "Bunny" Colvin

Actor

Robert Wisdom

Source

The Wire

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

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"Misgivings." The Wire, written by David Simon and Eric Ellis Overmyer and Ed Burns, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, season 4, episode 10, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2006.

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