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After having been present at his amusing lessons just once, I will always feel envious of his students.
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Levon Aronian, in Genius in the Background by Tibor Károlyi and Nick Aplin (2009), p. 218

 

Ashot Nadanian

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It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.

 

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When students' language, culture and experience are ignored or excluded in classroom interactions, students are immediately starting from a disadvantage. Everything they have learned about life and the world up to this point is being dismissed as irrelevant to school learning; there are few points of connection to curriculum materials or instruction and so students are expected to learn in an experiential vacuum. Students' silence and nonparticipation under these conditions have frequently been interpreted as lack of academic ability or effort, and teachers’ interactions with students have reflected a pattern of low expectations which become self-fulfilling.

 

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The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

 

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