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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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