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Samad Beh-Rang (Behrangi) is a writer from Azerbaijan, Iran. Besides teaching in remote villages and collecting epic and folk tales of Azerbaijan that had been passed along through generations by oral tradition, he wrote several stories for children and many articles on education. The nature of his writings with their metaphoric allusions to dictatorship and a yearning to equality, freedom and justice, have shed light on countless socio-economic problems, making it universal. However, Beh-Rang's works are very special in a sense that they not only address social problems, but they also offer solutions for them.

Little Black Fish is his masterpiece. Younger readers learn how to deal with such issues as bullying, discrimination and other day-...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 24 ratings · 7 reviews · 1 distinct work

The Little Black Fish
by Samad Beh-Rang, Arien Walizadeh (Illustrator), Ruby Emam (Translator)

3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2008

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Quotes by Samad Beh-Rang

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
Beh-Rang was a critic of "an educational system that does not offer anything other than limited reading and writing."
Beh-Rang”
― Samad Beh-Rang, The Little Black Fish

3 people liked it

“Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and turns. The child armed with the torch of knowledge, awareness and guidance must cross this bridge and set foot to the intense harshness of the bigger world.”
An In-Depth Analysis of Educational Deadlock”
― Samad Beh-Rang

tags: educational , inspirational , pedagogic , socio-political

3 people liked it

“From the will of a freedom-fighter, Farzad Kamangar:
"Is it possible to be a teacher and not show the path to the sea to the little fish of the country?
Is it possible to carry the heavy burden of being a teacher and be responsible for spreading the seeds of knowledge and still be silent? Is it possible to see the lumps in the throats of the students and witness their thin and malnourished faces and keep quiet? …
I cannot imagine witnessing the pain and poverty of the people of this land and fail to give our hearts to the river and the sea, to the roar and the flood.”
― Samad Beh-Rang

tags: freedom , pedagogy , progressive , ruby-emam , the-little-black-fish

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