Quotes About Engagement

Don't waste any energy on anything but what's in front of you.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care. Maybe it's not the kids' fault.

But mostly I just kept reminding myself to burn every moment into my memory. I just tried to be sure I was always there. That I didn't miss anything.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

Now, either nobody knows or nobody cares. Or maybe they just don't pay attention. They are too busy looking at their cellular phones.

Well, here's a thought on that. Raise your ass up off your cot, take it out into the visiting room, and then your eyes will

children not only remember the facts and sequence of the events in stories but are also able to discover meaning in them.

Stories and their meaning will be learned best by children if they actively experience them.

I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.

I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.

That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.

When you argue with verve in your saddlebags, you are extremely alive. That is why you yell and holler and shake your fist — could there be anything sweeter than convincing someone to see the world your way? What else is talking for, or jokes, or stories, or battles? The Loudest Magic, and how I loved it.

Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!

A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

healing-centered engagement moves the pendulum toward a focus on strengthening what supports well-being (hope, imagination, trust, aspirations) inclusive of social justice issues and intersectionality. In brief, it shifts the perspective from "what happened to you" to "what's resilient about you.

Paddy asks me, smiling

have to wait. We can get married in a few weeks.

Maybe it wasn't that he didn't want to talk about himself before now, she thought guiltily. Maybe it's just that I wasn't interested in listening.

others met (if at all) only virtually, whose institutional status

we are part of many institutions.

year (and still remains there) inviting comments by anyone registered to the site. An innovative digital tool, called Commentpress, allowed any reader to open a comment box for any paragraph of the text and to type in a response, and

socialize, and participate in civic life. The Reports result from research projects funded by the MacArthur Foundation as part of its $50 million initiative