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I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
Shows the old personal art, the look. Shows what
It showed at baseball. What it showed in school.
A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.
School days, school days; dear old golden rule days.
Readin' and 'ritin' and 'rithmetic; taught to the tune of a hick'ry stic
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves igno ...
Placing too much importance on where a child goes rather than what he does there . . . doesn't take into account the child's needs ...
School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social meas ...
Alas! regardless of their doom,
The little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come
Nor care beyond today.
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