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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William A. Ward
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou Have a great Memorial Day weekend 
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"For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed?"
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An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. ~Benjamin Franklin
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"I believe we need to keep challenging girls so they continually connect the relationship between efforts and results, that we keep encouraging them to take risks, make commitments, and achieve." Susan Lemagie, M.D. from How Jane Won...and boys too
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today's fav. bumper sticker -
�Well-behaved women rarely make history�
I'm not familiar with the quotee, Laura Thatcher Ulrich.
...ah, it's actually a book she wrote, she's an historian
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"Another hallmark of high-utility enrichment classes is that teachers insist that the failure-averse yet scholastically able child not just strive for A's but also take greater academic chances, albeit with adequate emotional support for such risks."
Alissa Quart, author of Hothouse Kids
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"Children who can integrate information will be best prepared to be lifelong learners with flexible minds. This sort of flexibility depends, in part, on children not tying learning to obligation-rather, learning how to learn with a certain lightness and adaptability."
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"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society." -- Billy Graham
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