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Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates
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First, education is always and inevitably personal. All students have their own reasons for staying in, or for pulling out of, school.


“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― The Eyre Affair
― The Eyre Affair

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”
― Something Rotten
― Something Rotten

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
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“The compulsion for me to get my cotton-pickin’ fingers on my fellow man is the natural result of my belief that I have the word. If I do have the word and feel surrounded by unmolded clay, I have no choice but to mold. When I do this, I begin playing God, and as a result usually raise the devil.”
― The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention
― The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention
“My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....”
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