Adora Svitak

Author

1997-10-15

Quotes by Adora Svitak

• By bringing current events into the classroom, everyday discussion, and social media, maybe we don't need to wait for our grandchildren's questions to remind us we should have paid more attention to current events.

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• We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'

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• The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

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• It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

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• The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.

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• None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

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• Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.

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• We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.

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• If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.

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