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  • 10 Reasons for America’s High Divorce Rate

    10 Reasons for America’s High Divorce Rate4

    It’s not news that U.S. divorce rate hovers around 50 percent. It seems more and more that divorce is no longer an anomaly – in fact, it might even be considered a norm. But have you ever wondered why the numbers run so high? According to Human Intimacy, by Frank D. Cox and Kevin Demmitt,

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  • 10 Rather Sobering Quotes from Joseph Conrad

    10 Rather Sobering Quotes from Joseph Conrad0

    1. “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”   2. “It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.”   3. “A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”   4.

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  • 10 Quotes from the Most Popular TED Talk EVER

    10 Quotes from the Most Popular TED Talk EVER0

    Sir Ken Robinson’s 2006 talk entitled “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” remains the most popular TED talk ever. That should tell us something about the public’s desire to transform today’s education system.   Here are 10 thought-provoking quotes from it:     1. “If you think of it, children starting school this year will be retiring

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  • 10 Quotes from the Highly Influential Karl Popper

    10 Quotes from the Highly Influential Karl Popper0

    • January 27, 2016

    1) “True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”   2) “The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.”   3) “Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem

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  • 10 Quotes from the Education System’s Most Infamous Critic

    10 Quotes from the Education System’s Most Infamous Critic1

    John Taylor Gatto is one of the biggest critics of the modern education system. He’s also someone who knows it intimately, having been a public school teacher in New York City for 26 years. In 1991, after receiving the New York State Teacher of the Year award, Gatto penned a famous letter for the Wall

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  • 10 Quotes from Bertrand Russell on Education and Life

    10 Quotes from Bertrand Russell on Education and Life0

    • January 13, 2016

    1. “Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good.”   2. “We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”   3. “The principal source of the harm done by the State is the fact that power is its chief end.”   4. “Most people

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