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“As we're told that 10 percent of all high school education will be computer-based by 2014 and rise to 50 percent by 2019, and as the PowerPoint throws up aphoristic bromides by the corporate heroes of the digitally driven 'global economy' -- the implication being that 'great companies' know what they're doing, while most schools don't -- and as we're goaded mercilessly to the conclusion that everything we are, know, and do is bound for the dustbin of history, I want to ask what kind of schooling Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had. Wasn't it at bottom the very sort of book-based, content-driven education that we declare obsolete in the name of their achievements?”
― Garret Keizer, Getting Schooled: The Reeducation of an American Teacher

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“The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.”
― Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

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“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

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Michigan Reads — 88 members — last activity Nov 10, 2017 05:50PM
A discussion group for people residing in the Great Lakes State.

#wellrED — 65 members — last activity Mar 31, 2014 09:21PM
A reading group for and by educators interested in leaning in to the difficult conversations and better serving all of the people with whom we work.

School Leaders as Readers — 28 members — last activity Nov 08, 2015 11:22PM
School leaders, including administrators, consultants and advocates, are invited to join this community. We will read one book per season that relates ...more

Laurie R. King Virtual Book Club — 1399 members — last activity Oct 11, 2024 01:17AM
The official book club for readers of mystery author Laurie R. King

Pop Sugar's Annual Ultimate Reading Challenge — 1556 members — last activity Jan 12, 2024 07:07PM
Welcome to an incredibly chill reading challenge group. Together we aim to tackle the annual Pop Sugar reading challenge each year but this group is m ...more

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