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teaching and being taught, and links

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Categories: career, children, education

I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this on this blog or not, but I spent a fair amount of time as a part-time schoolteacher for both middle school and college freshmen as a substitute teacher and later as a graduate assistant. I taught intro to calculus and accounting in grad school and substituted for [...]

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how to build a love of learning

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Categories: education

Why don’t Americans like to read?  And they don’t.  You’re reading blogs, so you obviously enjoy reading, but many people don’t.  You think other people ought to like to read.  But books don’t hold much sway anymore. From bookstatistics.com: 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college [...]

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