Sylvia

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Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine

by Jim Downs

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How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

by Daniel Immerwahr

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An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by Jeffrey; Pipher Hoffstein

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Sylvia’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life by Parker J. Palmer

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To those who say that we need weights and measures in order to enforce accountability in education, my response is, yes, of course we do, but only under three conditions that are not being met today. We need to make sure (1) that we measure ...more

Sylvia’s Quotes

“I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

tags: anna-funder, anxiety, calm, freedom, gdr, germany, purpose, rhymn, trains

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“She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.”
― Guy de Maupassant, A Woman's Life and Other Stories

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