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“We believe that as teachers, our job is not to establish a student’s ‘potential’, but to move them onwards from wherever they may be. In other words, the focus should be on the quality of our instruction, not on students’ ‘ability’ or ‘disability’.”
― James Murphy, Thinking Reading: What every secondary teacher needs to know about reading

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.”
― E. Lockhart, Fly on the Wall: How One Girl Saw Everything

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey