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“Your story doesn’t define you. What you decide to do next does.”

Book:TEAM UP : The Ultimate Parent Playbook for Raising Confident, Resilient Teens

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“Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.”

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Book:1:32 P.M.

Source: 1:32 P.M.

“That year, and every year, it seemed, we began by studying the Revolutionary War. We were taken in school buses on field trips to visit Plymouth Rock, and to walk the Freedom Trail, and to climb to the top of the Bunker Hill Monument. We made dioramas out of colored construction paper depicting George Washington crossing the choppy waters of the Delaware River, and we made puppets of King George wearing white tights and a black bow in his hair. During tests we were given blank maps of the thirteen colonies, and asked to fill in names, dates, capitals. I could do it with my eyes closed.”

American Education

Book:Interpreter of Maladies

Source: Interpreter of Maladies

“In Illinois there is a group of men who call themselves The University of Illinois and who, for a couple of dollars, will award a degree in a particular science.”

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Author:Herman Bavinck

“Now the line is: Forget the classics, concentrate on an education for the 21st century! Which apparently means knowing how to operate electronic devices and figure out a spreadsheet. That's not education, it's vocational training. What once were means seem to have become ends in education. And our more with-it "educators" shift with every passing wind, clutching at the latest gimmick the way drowning men do at straws.”

Today Education Demise American Education

Author:Paul Greenberg

“K-12 teaching is a low-status profession in this country, and in academia, teaching (what is already known) is less highly valued than research (expanding what is known). Teaching teachers is then the lowest of the low, totem pole-wise.”

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Book:Language at the Speed of Sight

Source: Language at the Speed of Sight

“Pyle had taken a good degree in – well, one of those subjects Americans can take degrees in: perhaps public relations or theatrecraft...”

American Education

Book:The Quiet American

Source: The Quiet American

“Manuel was sent to Harvard, where he developed a profound contempt for American culture. 'The Americans,' he would say, 'brush their teeth before kissing and remember a page to answer a question.”

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Book:The Goblins of Eros

Source: The Goblins of Eros

“You can keep nothing safe from our eyes and ears. This is your own history. We are your most perilous and dutiful brethren, the song of our hearts at once furious and sad. For only you could grant me these lyrical modes. I call them back to you. Here is the sole talent I ever dared nurture. Here is all of my American education.”

American Education

Book:Native Speaker

Source: Native Speaker

“I do not understand why America fails to see that by continuing to make education at college level unaffordable, credit rating-dependent and student loans almost impossible to repay, it is obstructing tertiary education from its potential brightest and poorest, and killing their best prospects of attracting high-paying employment.”

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Author:Peter-Cole C. Onele

“I been to college, u know? and what do I know? I know how to make blogs, drink beer, and pee on sidewalks.”

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Author:Dmitry Dyatlov

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