“a good student is careful not to forget what he studied until after the test is taken”

Chapters: 3. Weak Wishes, Strong Bones

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“Be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.”

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“It's not that I feel that school is a good idea gone wrong, but a wrong idea from the word go. It's a nutty notion that we can have a place where nothing but learning happens, cut off from the rest of life.”

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“The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.”

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“To a very great degree, school is a place where children learn to be stupid.”

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