"The toughest thing for a homeschooler is the same as for a school teacher - shifting from a weak tea vision of math being grinding calculations to a rich frothy mug of math as an active way of thinking."

-- John Golden

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“One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.”
“Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.”
“My life style in a sense is kind of private.”
“Is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America....”
“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yieldingâ€” certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”
“We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action”
“The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances.”
“I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.”

Source : "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - review" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2012.

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