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1 " Their eagerness to learn was replaced by a bizarre and erroneous notion that education is somehow a competition, not a process whereby a person becomes more capable and complete. There is even a term for the elite high school students most consumed by this phenomenon: “crispies”—because they have burned out. On "
― Charles Wheelan , We Came, We Saw, We Left: A Family Gap Year
2 " one point, Leah gave CJ a tough geometry problem in our Berlin hotel room. He collapsed to the floor, where he began crying and saying repeatedly that he wanted to be a taco. "
3 " My children are puppies. The police officer quickly figured out that I was trying to say that my children were lost. He was kind but not overly concerned. "
4 " So do you want to fly?” he asked. “Because it’s faster and cheaper.” “No,” I said. I tried to explain to him that the overnight train would offer a more complete Indian experience for our family and for Sophie’s friend Isabel. He looked at me as if I had told him that I was hoping to contract syphilis in order to better understand what it was like to have a venereal disease. "
