Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
Failure is not an option, so why talk about it?
Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters - the saints and the sinners, real or imagined - reading shows you how to be a better human being.
Students will read if we give them the books, the time, and the enthusiastic encouragement to do so. If we make them wait for the one unit a year in which they are allowed to choose their own books and become readers, they may never read at all. To keep our students reading, we have to let them.
Exposing students to lots of books and positive reading experiences while building a network of other readers who support each other provides students with tools that last beyond the classroom setting.
Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.
I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.
Using the Japan-U. S. alliance as a basis, it is important that we maintain and develop cooperative relations with our neighboring countries such as China, South Korea, and Russia.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.