“so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“It is the connections among concepts—or the lack of connections—that separate the students who memorize a formula for an exam only to forget it the next month and the students who internalize the concepts and are able to apply them when they need them a decade later.”
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
― The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
“it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
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