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Nora Ephron, “The Best Journalism Teacher I Ever Had,” Northwest Scholastic Press, June 18, 2013, www.nwscholasticpress.org/2013/06/18/the-best-journalism-teacher-i-ever-had/#sthash.ZFtUBv50.dpbs; also written about by Ephron in her essay “Getting to the Point,” in Those Who Can … Teach! Celebrating Teachers Who Make a Difference, by Lorraine Glenn
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ON SCHOOLING Sending only boys to school is like clapping with one hand. Where is the sense in that? Hear me this: Every single child is deserve of a chance to go to school. When you send a girl to school, her whole village will eat the fruit of it, especially including you, the sender.
Abi Daré • And So I Roar: A Novel
All great teachers teach students how to reach the high standards.
Carol S. Dweck • Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
One source of evidence is work by Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist who has dissolved the brains of many creatures to determine how many neurons are present. She’s found a lot of interesting scaling laws. She has a paper discussing the human brain as a scaled-up primate brain.60 Across a wide variety of animals, mammals in particular, there
... See moreDwarkesh Patel • The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
« L’histoire de l’humanité est devenue une course entre l’éducation et la catastrophe. » H. G. Wells
Ken Robinson • Changez l'école ! : La révolution qui va transformer l'éducation (French Edition)
Aspect of Science Overlooked by Educators.”
Temple Grandin • Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions
On the contrary, she found that kin relationships in other primates are consistently organised through mothers rather than fathers. This may not be hugely significant – it could well be that humans are just different – but it was so persistent a feature that it led Thompson to wonder whether scientists who had studied humans might have underestimat
... See moreAngela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
