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John Ciardi

"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."

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Amber Hurdle

"One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one of the nuns discovered this phenomenon and I was actually sent around from classroom to classroom to do the whole thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"You get on TV and you become more of a star and it makes it real hard to go back to school and sit in a classroom, put your hand up if you have a question or something."

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Amber Hurdle

"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."

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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself."
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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
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"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down."
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