"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."

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Source : Rafe Esquith (2009). “Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World”, p.22, Penguin

Rafe Esquith

#Summer Quotes #Children Quotes #School Quotes

“Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers”

Source : Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books
“To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.”
“It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.”
“If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.”

Source : Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”
“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.”
“I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.”

Source : "Amazon.com Review: Questions for Annette Gordon-Reed". www.amazon.com.
“I'm the LCL - the Last Center Left. I've been doing the same things for 13 years, but now they're flopping and falling, and the refs are falling for it, too.”
“Someone has said the best nursing home is the U.S. Senate.”

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