67 Quotes by Carl Hart

The key is to keep the focus on people's actions, on their behaviors, rather than speculate about their motives. Trying to determine what's in a person's head or heart is a pointless distraction. It's impossible to know for certain the heart's inner secrets.

Indeed, a great deal of pathological drug use is driven by unmet social needs, by being alienated and having difficulty connecting with others. The.

One of the most fundamental lessons of science is that a correlation or link between factors does not necessarily mean that one factor is the cause of another. This important principle, sadly, has rarely informed drug policy. In fact, empirical evidence is frequently ignored when drug policy is formulated.

Racism is the belief that social and cultural differences between groups are inherited and immutable, making some groups inalterably superior to others.

Don’t try to change yourself; change your environment. – B. F. SKINNER.

Data now confirms that believing in the importance of practice, rather.

Instead, the adults around us saw school as a quest for a certificate, a stamp of approval you could show around later in life. Rather than valuing the process of education itself and the essential critical thinking skills that can be gained from it, they saw school as a means to an end.

But it wasn’t until I joined the air force and began taking college courses that I fully recognized the power of language.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. – JAMES BALDWIN.