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"Read the chapter on Singapore'a education system. It felt strange to see statistics that compared it to Australian and American education landscapes. I think broad data doesn't capture human narratives and lives very well. I felt quite removed from the supposed narrative, though I was encouraged to take more interest in global perspectives on education, and be thankful of the lot of Singaporean teachers in comparison" — Dec 24, 2024 02:34AM
"Read the chapter on Singapore'a education system. It felt strange to see statistics that compared it to Australian and American education landscapes. I think broad data doesn't capture human narratives and lives very well. I felt quite removed from the supposed narrative, though I was encouraged to take more interest in global perspectives on education, and be thankful of the lot of Singaporean teachers in comparison" — Dec 24, 2024 02:34AM
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"There are 5 pillars the book mentions, 3 of which were perspectives I didn't know about, so it was like learning many new things. Some sentiments echoed what I felt from my experiences as an educator." — Dec 23, 2024 10:27PM
"There are 5 pillars the book mentions, 3 of which were perspectives I didn't know about, so it was like learning many new things. Some sentiments echoed what I felt from my experiences as an educator." — Dec 23, 2024 10:27PM
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
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“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
― 1984
― 1984
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