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  • noun the trait of acting stupidly or rashly

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  • Thus it is not what is taught but what is not taught, what teachers and professors have never learned the value of, that reinforces a fundamental unwiseness in American schooling, and keeps black disidentification on full boil.

    Race and the Schooling of Black Americans 1992

  • Thus it is not what is taught but what is not taught, what teachers and professors have never learned the value of, that reinforces a fundamental unwiseness in American schooling, and keeps black disidentification on full boil.

    Race and the Schooling of Black Americans 1992

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