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Niobe Way is an educator who one day was teaching eighth-grade boys how to conduct interviews. She made herself their first interview subject and told them they could ask her anything. Here’s how one of those interviews went: Student A: Are you married? Way: No. Student B: Are you divorced? Way: Yes. Student C: Do you still love him? Way: (Deep
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The rest of my teachers maybe did the best they could, but they just needed a lot of help making their best better. There were so many things we needed in those classrooms, in our city, in our state, in our country that our teachers could have provided if they would have gone home and really done their homework. They never once said the words:
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Stevenson, who is known for going into jails and prisons and spending hours upon hours sitting with defendants, hearing their stories, affirming their humanity, and offering them dignity.
Brad Stulberg • Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You
To me, the whole concept of seniority among students was outlandish. I learned that students in the years above us were called sunbae.
Lena Lee • Girl Uprooted: A Memoir
Professor R. M. Rabinowski Department of Psychology Fortuna College, Fortuna, California Dear Professor Rabinowski, Your book changed my life. He tells a full-fledged conversion narrative: wayward boy saved by a chance encounter with brilliance. He describes how The Ape Inside Us awakened something in him, although the awakening has come, perhaps,
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Mitchell Hashimoto
mitchellh.comWhen I was a seminary student, I attended one of the great quadrennial conventions of the Student Volunteer Movement. One afternoon some seven hundred of us had a special group meeting, at which a Korean girl was asked to talk to us about her impression of American education. It was an occasion to be remembered. The Korean student was very
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