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“Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.”
― Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
― Lighting Their Fires: Raising Extraordinary Children in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World
“Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.”
― Woman at Point Zero
― Woman at Point Zero
“People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.”
― Our Town
― Our Town
“What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.”
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“To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.”
― There Are No Shortcuts
― There Are No Shortcuts
Eva’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Eva’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
488 books
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354 friends
5,614 books
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1,870 friends
425 books
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153 friends
1,421 books
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167 friends
324 books
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48 friends
69 books
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3 friends
1 book
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155 friends
992 books
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703 friends
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