"The new one actually reads, but only to pass judgment. This is the way kids learn today. Someone told them how you feel is more important than what you know, and so they think accusations are ideas. This is political correction run amok."

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Source : Allegra Goodman (2011). “The Cookbook Collector”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd

Allegra Goodman

#Running Quotes #Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Differentiation is classroom practice that looks eyeball to eyeball with the reality that kids differ, and the most effective teachers do whatever it takes to hook the whole range of kids on learning.”
“I heard this theory once that love means your subconscious is attracted to someone elseâ€™s subconscious.”
“I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.”
“Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.”

Source : "Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s Imprisonment a Painful Reminder of China’s Dictatorship" by Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2012.
“The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.”
“I was very lucky because Tim Burton really gave me a career. I don't think Hollywood would've known what to do with me. If I hadn't done 'Beetlejuice,' I think I would've just gone back to my school.”
“Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.”
“Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.”

Source : "Q&A – Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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