"The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher."

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Source : Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

Harry Wong

#Teacher Quotes #Race Quotes #Effectiveness Quotes

“Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas' etc. There will be plenty things we take as normal and good now that future generations will look back at in horror or amusement.”
“I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.”

Source : "Mo Yan and Joseph Anton" by Farzana Versey, www.counterpunch.org. October 12, 2012.
“If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.”
“I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had to play to beat her. I just did everything I could in the moment. I was very focused for every point. I knew that I had to go forward for every shot I was playing to push her back, and yeah, I did it.”
“Even if it's such a lowly art as TV, you've got to get stuff off your chest, because that's what makes something different and original, your particular take on stuff.”
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
“His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them”
“If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.”

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