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"I'm not sure I'm following the book well. I feel like I need to keep a summary of each chapter on hand so that I can look for the answers to my questions. I do enjoy it tho. The story is fascinating and keeps the reader curious about what will happen next." Feb 02, 2012 08:04AM

 
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Amanda Ripley
“Without data, you are just another person with an opinion . . . Without data, you are just another person with an opinion . . .”
Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

J.D. Vance
“A lot of students just don’t understand what’s out there,” she told me, shaking her head. “You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don’t even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.”
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J.D. Vance
“whenever people ask me what I’d most like to change about the white working class, I say, “The feeling that our choices don’t matter.”
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Amanda Ripley
“Why were American kids consistently underestimated in math? In middle school, Kim and Tom had both decided that math was something you were either good at, or you weren’t, and they weren’t. Interestingly, that was not the kind of thing that most Americans said about reading. If you weren’t good at reading, you could, most people assumed, get better through hard work and good teaching. But in the United States, math was, for some reason, considered more of an innate ability, like being double-jointed.”
Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

Amanda Ripley
“Why did math matter so much? Some reasons were practical: More and more jobs required familiarity with probability, statistics, and geometry. The other reason was that math was not just math. Math is a language of logic. It is a disciplined, organized way of thinking. There is a right answer; there are rules that must be followed. More than any other subject, math is rigor distilled. Mastering the language of logic helps to embed higher-order habits in kids’ minds: the ability to reason, for example, to detect patterns and to make informed guesses. Those kinds of skills had rising value in a”
Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

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