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1975-04-20 Keynote Address: Chicanos and Education - Salvador Ramirez Page 11

THE 12 MILLION SPANISH-SPEAKING MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AS WE ONLY ACCOUNT FOR .5 PER CENT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT. 
TODAY…..FOR EVERY 100 CHICANOS WHO ENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ONLY 22.5 MAKE IT TO COLLEGE AND 5.4. GRADUATE, COMPARED WITH 49.3 WHITES WHO GO TO COLLEGE AND 23.8 WHO FINISH.
YOU WILL DEAL WITH POWERFUL WORDS AND/OR PHRASES I.E. DEMOCRATIZATION, INNOVATIVE, CULTURAL PLURALISM…..RECIDIVISM…..PARITY…..DESEGREGATION….. ALL THESE AND MANY OTHER WORDS AND PHRASES MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT FOLK. EVENTUALLY THESE DIFFERENT MEANINGS STALEMATE EACH OTHER AND NEW WORDS AND PHRASES WILL BECOME THE MOVING FORCES.
THEN YOU WILL NOTICE AS YOU ATTEMPT TO CONCEPTUALIZE ABSTRACTION THAT…..OUT THERE IN THE VAGUE DISTANCE IS AN EDUCATIONAL STEAMING MELTING POT OF D.D.T. UNDER A FIRE…..AND AS YOU MOVE CLOSER TO THIS POT YOU’LL NOTICE SUBSTANCES IN IT THAT ARE NOT OF THE SAME TYPE OR DENSITY. RATHER, THERE ARE LUMPS VARYING IN QUALITY, SHAPE AND COMPOSITION.
THE PREDOMINANT SUBSTANCE IN THE MELTING POT REGULATES THE RATE OF CHANGE AND DEGREE OF HEAT TO FIT ITS OWN SPECIFIC NEEDS AND PREFERENCES. 
FROM THIS IS DERIVED THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO UNIFORM RULE GOVERNING RATE OF CHANGE AND DEGREE OF HEAT IN THE MELTING POT. THE DOMINANT SUBSTANCE IS NOT

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THE 12 MILLION SPANISH-SPEAKING MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AS WE ONLY ACCOUNT FOR .5 PER CENT OF GRADUATE SCHOOL ENROLLMENT. TODAY…..FOR EVERY 100 CHICANOS WHO ENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ONLY 22.5 MAKE IT TO COLLEGE AND 5.4. GRADUATE, COMPARED WITH 49.3 WHITES WHO GO TO COLLEGE AND 23.8 WHO FINISH. YOU WILL DEAL WITH POWERFUL WORDS AND/OR PHRASES I.E. DEMOCRATIZATION, INNOVATIVE, CULTURAL PLURALISM…..RECIDIVISM…..PARITY…..DESEGREGATION….. ALL THESE AND MANY OTHER WORDS AND PHRASES MEAN DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT FOLK. EVENTUALLY THESE DIFFERENT MEANINGS STALEMATE EACH OTHER AND NEW WORDS AND PHRASES WILL BECOME THE MOVING FORCES. THEN YOU WILL NOTICE AS YOU ATTEMPT TO CONCEPTUALIZE ABSTRACTION THAT…..OUT THERE IN THE VAGUE DISTANCE IS AN EDUCATIONAL STEAMING MELTING POT OF D.D.T. UNDER A FIRE…..AND AS YOU MOVE CLOSER TO THIS POT YOU’LL NOTICE SUBSTANCES IN IT THAT ARE NOT OF THE SAME TYPE OR DENSITY. RATHER, THERE ARE LUMPS VARYING IN QUALITY, SHAPE AND COMPOSITION. THE PREDOMINANT SUBSTANCE IN THE MELTING POT REGULATES THE RATE OF CHANGE AND DEGREE OF HEAT TO FIT ITS OWN SPECIFIC NEEDS AND PREFERENCES. FROM THIS IS DERIVED THE FACT THAT THERE IS NO UNIFORM RULE GOVERNING RATE OF CHANGE AND DEGREE OF HEAT IN THE MELTING POT. THE DOMINANT SUBSTANCE IS NOT