Jill Vialet famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We're asking schools to look at kids as partners in education.
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Play doesn't have to be the opposite of work.
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Policy change is most effectively enacted on the local and state level.
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Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.
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Play is kids' work in that it is a form of experiential learning that contributes directly to a person's ability to handle failure, to work in teams, and to take risks.
-- Jill Vialet
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don't need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. . . . Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense." --Sam Seaborne, West Wing
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I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.
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If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time
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As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
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Tut, Tut, looks like rain
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
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