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“There is still in many schools complete misapprehension that children with reading difficulties are stupid. It is so easy to teach a child that they're dumb. There needs to be a recognition that you need different ways to teach children who have got reading problems.”

Way Needs Children Stills Different Problem School Reading Easy Teach Stupid Difficulty Recognition Dumb Different Ways

Author:Jackie French

“Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.”

Feels Faces Moving Honest Stupid Honesty Humility Difficulty Humble Being Honest Be Humble Honesty Inspirational

Book:Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

Source: Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)

“They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”

Source: Heart of Darkness

“She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.”

Ends Enough Together Pay Attention Stupid Fairs Difficulty Deny Pay Attention

Author:Ted Dekker