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What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.

~Claire Mccaskill

Topics: Because Begun Behind Child Classroom Creativity Done Just Left Out Squeeze Teachers Teaching Test

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If you ask a ten-year-old girl what she wants to do when she grows up and a fourteen-year-old girl what she wants to be when she grows up, in many cases, the older child will have a much less free sense of what's possible.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Ask Cases Child Free Girl Grows Less Many Much Older Possible Sense She Up Wants Will You

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The way I saw the world as a child was not wrong. And it's okay to see the world that way. If it doesn't hurt anybody.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Anybody Child Hurt Okay Saw See Way World Wrong

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Don't think that there's a different, better child 'hiding' behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but that's the goal.

~Claire Scovell Lazebnik

Topics: Any Autism Behind Better Celebrate Child Different Encourage Front Goal Harder Hiding His Improve Love May Some Strengths Think Way Weaknesses Work Would You Your Your Child

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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Book Child Despised English Friends Medieval Saved Up Very Which

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It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Child Difficult Difficult Thing Grown-Up Lose Thing

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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

~Clare Balding

Topics: Asset Attitude Bad Being Benevolent Benign Between Child Crack Cross Dictator Feel Irrelevant Just Kids Least Like Made Negligence Parental Should You

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I've always loved acting, even from when I was a child. But when I got on stage, I realised I couldn't act my way out of a paper bag. I was wild and full of unharnessed energy, but I was around all these seasoned performers like Rita Cullis. It was as if they were all in slow motion.

~Claron Mcfadden

Topics: Act Acting Always Around Bag Child Energy Even Full Got Like Loved Motion Out Paper Paper Bag Performers Realised Rita Seasoned Slow Slow Motion Stage Way Were Wild

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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

~Claude Debussy

Topics: Child Interior Naive Sing Visions Wish I Wish

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Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

~Claude Levi-Strauss

Topics: Absurdity Adult Both Child Consolation Deny Height Him Order Our Punish Right Since System Treat

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