Words about Education and Literacy
Brooke Holland
Dr. Bennet Omalu, a forensic neuropathologist who brought awareness to football-related brain trauma and recently reached the spotlight through the movie Concussion, spoke these words to a crowd: “He has given me a great gift. A dangerous gift. The gift…
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Chances are there is a child in your classroom who is difficult. Who doesn’t smile. Who rolls her eyes when told to begin an assignment and produces silence when asked a question. Making this negative child the center of my attention…
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“Why are you still reading that stupid book about beauty? Do I not tell you enough how beautiful you are?” my husband asked in annoyance and jest at what he perceived I was reading: a self-help sort of book about…
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Who deserves the best education? The boy who turns in all of his assignments on time? The girls whose mom offers to drive for field trips? The boy who says ‘good morning’ every day? The girl who tells you you’re…
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Students enjoy this 20-minute creative writing activity: Step 1: Put students in groups of 4-5. Step 2: Each student takes out a piece of lined paper and a pen. Step 3: Each student chooses a location that they will describe….
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The Danish word hygge means “instantly satisfying and cozy.” Hygge is the sensation that enveloped me while I read Fawn Weaver’s book Happy Wives Club. In an effort to counter culture’s expected norm of unhappy and broken marriages, Weaver traveled…
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Some say that the purpose of education is exposure Some say experience. Some say knowledge. Martin Luther King, Jr., says “Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” What do you say?
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” – Maya Angelou Do…
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Which Time magazine did students take from the school library’s shelf more than any other this year? Based on its worn pages and almost-torn-off back cover, it seems to be this one: The April 11, 2016, issue with PORN plastered…
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Have you ever walked into someone’s living room and been disappointed by the lack—or absence—of books? (This horror hit me the first time I sat in my mother-in-law’s living room. No books. No books? I looked again. No books. I…
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