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And then the year is over, and her job is done. But the plants will keep growing, uncurling
their stems, stretching their leaves outward and showing their faces to the sun. - Edith Pattou
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quotes & gallery
| At the top of every page is one of my favourite quotes about literacy or learning (randomly generated). Here’s the complete list, in no particular order: |
- The test of a good story is in how much good stuff you can leave out.
- Ernest Hemmingway
- And will you succeed? Yes! You will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)
- Dr. Suess
- Write the novel you are desperate to read.
- Susan Isaacs
- I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein
- Those who cannot imagine cannot read.
- Eliot Eisner
- You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
- George W. Bush
- You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
- Doctor Seuss
- Words are the voice of the heart.
- Confucius
- And then the year is over, and her job is done. But the plants will keep growing, uncurling their stems, stretching their leaves outward and showing their faces to the sun.
- Edith Pattou
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Story is a basic way of organizing our human experiences, a framework for learning. We search for our own stories in the stories of others.
- David Booth
- A room without books is as a body without a soul.
- Cicero
- Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
- I don’t believe that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, and that’s been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
- Monty Python
- Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Gandhi
- The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John Lubbock
- Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
- Grace Slick
- Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes.
- Neil Gaiman
| At the top of every page is also a framed photograph sitting on my "bookshelf," in randomly-generated order. Here's the full gallery: |
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