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Everyone should read this book. Wow.

“...in traditional classrooms, teaching is believed to lead to learning, while in the classrooms in Reggio Emilia, learning - as teachers document and analyze it - leads to teaching.”

"Learning through interactions with students is one of the most enjoyable tensions teachers expereince, since they often enter the profession because they want to be lifelong learners."

"Why make poems? Because you love reading and making them. Because for you the world stands up and lives most vividly in poems. Your poems probably won't pay your bills, but one at a time, they'll give shape and bring surprise to your life and to your readers' lives. And that's plenty. Make strange. Be true. Good Luck." --Robert Farnsworth