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read‎ (1580)

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best-picture-books‎ (133)
favorite-children-s-lit‎ (66)

nonfiction-read-alouds‎ (54)
favorites‎ (22)
science-of-reading‎ (18)

professional-must-reads‎ (13)
historical-fiction-worth-reading‎ (3)

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Katie’s Quotes

“Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.”
― Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

tags: albert-einstein, quote

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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

—"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64”
― Albert Einstein

tags: 1955, curiosity, mystery

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“What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells...”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

tags: beauty, love, wordsworth

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