Children who are not spoken to by responsive adults will not learn to speak properly. Children who are not answered will stop asking questions. They will become incurious. And children who are not told stories and who are not read to will have few reasons for wanting to learn to read.
- Gail Haley
Teachers daily calendar Tue 31 Mar 2009
[My family] believed in the public school because they believed in a community. They believed the important thing was what was in your head. My grandmother was a schoolteacher. She taught in a one-room country school north of Anoka, Minnesota, and my grandmother had a certain contempt for people who made a great show and were not that bright. My grandmother said, "Don't be a ten-dollar haircut on a twenty-five-cent head." You avoided that by going to school and paying attention. You became a worthwhile person and a member of the community.
- Garrison Keillor
Teachers daily calendar Wed 1 Apr 2009
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