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Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education QUOTES

1 " A debt-free bachelor's degree is, as it turns out, priceless: As Jane Austen puts it, it sets you up forever. My friends were still paying off their school loans in their forties. I never had any school debt at all. Because I had no debt, I could choose my life, and choose my adventure. "

― Susan Wise Bauer , Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

2 " if a “disability” really only becomes a problem in one setting—our factory-model K–12 system—I’d challenge that label. "

― Susan Wise Bauer , Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

3 " Let me offer my own experience. I went to a dreadful college. My bachelor's degree was accredited, but I'm so embarrassed by my undergraduate alma mater that I don't even put it on my resume. (You'd be surprise how few people ask.) I went there because my parents, to the frank, didn't know that I should aim higher; because they were very conservative, and thought it would be a safe place for a sixteen-year-old freshman; because my grandfather loved the school; because we were broke, and the school offered me a full tuition plus room and board scholarship. "

― Susan Wise Bauer , Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education

4 " It is normal for a fifth-grade aged student to be writing at a third-grade level, reading at a fifth-grade level, and doing math at a seventh-grade level. A child who succeeds at two subjects and cries over the third may still be showing immaturity—and the answer may be to drop back to a lower level in only the third subject. "

― Susan Wise Bauer , Rethinking School: How to Take Charge of Your Child's Education