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“Current thinking about reading (Luke & Freebody, 1999; Pearson, 2001) suggests that we should help our students to comprehend at these deeper levels—levels that require them to think beyond the information on the printed page and critically analyze the author’s message. Reading from a critical perspective”
― Maureen McLaughlin, Critical Literacy: Enhancing Students’ Comprehension of Text

“There is a sense of empowerment and confidence in the act of creation that cannot be achieved by copying.”
― Maureen McLaughlin, Critical Literacy: Enhancing Students’ Comprehension of Text

“How can we help young people develop as creative thinkers so that they’re prepared for life in this ever-changing world?”
― Mitchel Resnick, Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play

“Learning isn’t a way of reaching one’s potential but rather a way of developing it.”
― Anders Ericsson, Peak: Unleashing Your Inner Champion Through Revolutionary Methods for Skill Acquisition and Performance Enhancement in Work, Sports, and Life

“We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other.”
― Barbara Davis, The Echo of Old Books