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Always Sami. I was tethered to her somehow. To that scared little girl I’d found on the staircase nearly a year earlier; to the past, when teaching was simpler and I could care about everyday problems, when being relentless meant running two extra laps, not waiting for an MP to search the undercarriage of a bus for bombs before letting students approach it. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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In Korea I’d been so afraid that Sami would lose her dad. She did, but she didn’t get a flag. He went to Doha, then to Baghdad, then to Kabul, then to someplace else, and then to a different someplace else, on and on. He’d come home, leave again, come home, leave again, until one day he came home a different person altogether. Sami lost Angel, lost her family, and then she lost herself. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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I’m clinging to one last thought: pain is the harbinger of hope. You have to be alive to feel pain. If you are alive, then you have purpose. If you have purpose, then you have hope. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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This is who I was, before I was dead. When I cared, when I was relentless. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#education #historian #i #learned #lifetime

Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. ↗

— William Glasser

#because #destroying #done #education #every