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"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."
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"I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young."
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"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."
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"I educated myself. To me, school was boring."
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"I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991."
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"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
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"I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up."
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"No one has the Houdini school of composition."
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"And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk."
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"At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers."
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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
Commonsense
"It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri."
School
"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
Creativity
"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."
History
"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
Truth
"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."
Science
"No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published."
Writing
"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
Humor
"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
Trust
"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
Teaching
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