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In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults. -- Charles J. Shields
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental. -- Alison Gopnik
My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have never felt that I had to set a pattern for my writing and teaching. -- Sonia Levitin
We're good at taking care of little kids, and spend a lot of energy teaching them things like how to read. But when kids get as tall as their parents and can look them in the eyes, we tend to drop the ball - at a time they most need a loving consistent community of adults, be it parents, aunts, uncles, or others. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. -- Keith Johnstone
People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy. -- B. J. Fogg
To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults? -- Bill Crawford

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