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Fragment of the Day – The Love of Books

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Quotations on Inspiration

Originally posted on charles french words reading and writing:
(https://pixabay.com) “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”                                                                     Mahatma Gandhi ? (https://pixabay.com) “There are only two ways to live your life.…

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Learn From A Cat

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Happiness Can Be Bought!

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Before Smartphones and Computers Kids Had Real Fun

The best learning takes place outdoors, where children have to figure things out on their own. No parents or teachers to guide them. This is critical, divergent thinking. That is what astronauts need. So do artists and writers, musicians and … Continue reading

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A Few Quotations on Reading

Originally posted on charles french words reading and writing:
https://commons.wikimedia.org) “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”                                                                   Frederick Douglass ? (https://en.wikiquote.org) “You’re never too old,    too wacky, too wild,    to pick up a book…

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Almost Got Him…

Originally posted on Mitch Teemley:
Just a hare more. Is there anything more uselessly useful than when children “help”?  They do help us, though. We help them to become adults, and they help us to become children again. Which is…

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Fragment of the Day- Harry Potter

May the words I say to children, and the words I write to others leave behind a little magic.

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Take Time to Read

Originally posted on charles french words reading and writing:
(pixabay.com) “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”                                                                                   Stephen King ? (pixabay.com) “Read, read, read. Read everything…

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Why kids can learn more from tales of fantasy than realism

Originally posted on M.C. Tuggle, Writer:
Deena Weisberg is a senior fellow in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her specialty is “imaginative cognition,” which studies how imagination boosts one’s ability to learn. Her research demonstrates that children absorb…

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