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- You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher
- When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can…
- But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's…
- I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I…
- The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or…
- You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them…
- When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.
- Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them.…
- All I ever wanted was to know what to do.
- There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something…
- Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I…
- Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?
- My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning…
- If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
- Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)
- But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one…
- The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just…
- You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you’ve done nothing good for yourself. That’s the same feeling,…
- Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even…
- But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home,…
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- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
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