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“Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.”
― Woman at Point Zero
― Woman at Point Zero
“There are so many charlatans in the world of education. They teach for a couple of years, come up with a few clever slogans, build their websites, and hit the lecture circuit. In this fast-food-society, simple solutions to complex problems are embraced far too often. We can do better. I hope that people who read this book realize that true excellence takes sacrifice, mistakes, and enormous amounts of effort. After all, there are no shortcuts.”
― Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
― Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
“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
“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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“These days, many well-meaning school districts bring together teachers, coaches, curriculum supervisors, and a cast of thousands to determine what skills your child needs to be successful. Once these "standards" have been established, pacing plans are then drawn up to make sure that each particular skill is taught at the same rate and in the same way to all children. This is, of course, absurd. It gets even worse when one considers the very real fact that nothing of value is learned permanently by a child in a day or two.”
― 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
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