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“In the face of adversity, we have a choice. We can be bitter, or we can be better. Those words are my North Star.”

Book:Bitter Or Better: Grappling with Life on the Op-Ed Page

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“Indira was surrounded by people who had given up hope, who blamed their own misery on the influence of Christianity and western cultures, and yet, literally in the midst of squalor, her family had created a place of real beauty. It really makes you stop and think. Uncle Google should be spitting out eight hundred million things American schools have done right. The fact things are so screwed up makes no sense. If you believe Uncle Google, then we’ve done the exact opposite from Indira’s family—in the land of hope and plenty we’ve created a place that’s ugly. We have so much. Can things really be so bad? Maybe we can’t fix our schools because as individuals we’ve never truly been broken. Or maybe Chinese lanterns make everyone wax philosophical.”

School Leadership Education Beauty Teaching Students Ugly School Issue

Book:The Rainy Season

Source: The Rainy Season

“Mes baigėme mokyklą, pasižadėjome draugauti visą gyvenimą ir nuėjome skirtingais keliais”

School Friendship Loyal

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?' I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.”

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Book:The Rainy Season

Source: The Rainy Season

“I am a teacher. I should be giving tests, not taking them.”

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Book:Paris in April

Source: Paris in April

“..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing down of possibilities that led to the formation of accurate opinion. The students could be, as it were (he said), the rubbing post for the thought of his teacher.”

School Education University Thought Possibilities

Book:Eating people is wrong

Source: Eating people is wrong

“Ukiwa na kipaji nenda shule kurekebisha kipaji chako, ukiwa na ujuzi nenda shule kurekebisha ujuzi wako.”

School Talent College Skill Kipaji Shule Ujuzi Chuo Fine Tune Rekebisha

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Train your brain to gain.”

School Education Learning Memory

Book:Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard

Source: Straight A at Stanford and on to Harvard

“A school bell that sounds annoying at 8:00am sounds exciting at 4:00pm ....it is a matter of time , you will get there.”

School Time Hope

Author:Osunsakin Adewale

“Songs have taught me more about life than school ever has and how to follow my ambitions no matter what they are and how to live my life no matter the trade-off.”

School Music Dreams Taught Songs

Author:Kaya Carvajal

“I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have a perfect childhood? A perfect school life? I was happy once. But I was young. The older you get, the more you remember. The younger you are, the more you forget.”

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Book:Those Who Can’t, Teach

Source: Those Who Can’t, Teach

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