"My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance."

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Gene Luen Yang

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“I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I have only two alternatives in taking this stand: either I go to jail or go to the Army. There is another alternative and that alternative is justice. If justice prevails, if my Constitutional rights are upheld, I will be forced to go neither to the Army nor jail. In the end I am confident that justice will come my way for the truth must eventually prevail.”
“Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.”
“I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.”
“You must master a new way to think, before you can master a new way to be.”
“There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.”
“You beat 50 percent of the people in America by working hard. You beat 40 percent by being a person of honesty and integrity and standing for something. The last 10 percent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.”
“She don't know how much I need her She don't know I'd fall apart Without her kiss without her touch Without her faithful lovin' arms”

Source : Song: She Don't Know I Really Need Her
“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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