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"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
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"They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing."
"This is what a real teacher does: she opens the gates of our minds to the possibilities of the soul."
"If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel, and nothing in your bathroom but Jokes for the John, I'll chase you down to the end of your driveway and back, screaming 'Where are your books? You graduated college ten years ago, so how come there are no damn books in your house? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?"
"It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written."
"We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
"I don't think science is hard to teach because humans aren't ready for it, or because it arose only through a fluke, or because, by and large, we don't have the brainpower to grapple with it. Instead, the enormous zest for science that I see in first-graders and the lesson from the remnant hunter-gatherers both speak eloquently: A proclivity for science is embedded deeply within us, in all times, places, and cultures. It has been the means for our survival. It is our birthright. When, through indifference, inattention, incompetence, or fear of skepticism, we discourage children from science, we are disenfranchising them, taking from them the tools needed to manage their future."
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"I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking."
"Giving credit where credit is due is a very rewarding habit to form. Its rewards are inestimable."
"Of course it was Mamma who both stopped my career and crystallized my determination to resume it."
"Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others."
"A pleasant voice, which has to include clear enunciation, is not only attractive to those who hear it... its appeal is permanent."
"If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere."
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