“A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.” ChildrenSchoolEssentialsConnectionsAccountsCompetitionExcellencePhonesSpeedCellsMinoritiesAcademicPublic SchoolImperativesCell PhoneRestoringIpadsNetflixHigh SpeedAcademic Excellence Author:Michelle Malkin
“Kids are coming out earlier and earlier - some, as young as twelve now - and schools need to take that into account.” NeedsKidsSchoolYoungAccountsComing OutTwelve Author:Ian Mckellen
“...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.” WaySeemsSchoolTeachResearchAccountsUniversityOfferingIncapableFragmentsInstituteUnifiedDisconnectedInstitutes Book:Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History Source: Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
“Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.” SchoolMemoriesEmotionFamilyHigh SchoolAccountsOneselfTensionAwkwardReunionEmbers Author:Anita Shreve
“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesDifferentSchoolGirlReadingHouseCausesParentBoysSonThirdsAccountsListsGradesMy SonBoy And GirlPrairieThird GradeLike A BoyLittle House On The Prairie Author:Jon Scieszka