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Prince of Storms (Entire and the Rose, #4)

by Kay Kenyon

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A Scanner Darkly

by Philip K. Dick

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The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

by Diane Ravitch

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Lorri liked Phoebe's review of The Magician King: " If you're a fan of young adult literature, you've probably seen Sady Doyle's In Praise of Joanne Rowling's Hermione Granger series. Lovingly detailed, this feminist critique cut Harry Potter down to size a little. In Doyle's reimagining, he's nothing... " Read more of this review »
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“The multitude is always in the wrong.”
― Paulo Freire

12 people liked it

“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.”
― Albert Einstein

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118 people liked it

“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

36 people liked it