How the Brain Benefits from being Bilingual

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40 Inspirational Quotes Every Graduate Student Should Know

1. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work – Thomas Edison
2. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners – Robert T. Kiyosaki
3. Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them – Anonymous
4. I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is: Try to please everybody. - Herbert B. Swope
5. If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. - Charles Kettering
6. Being different is one of the most beautiful things on earth. - Anonymous
7. Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einsten
8. The expert in anything was once a beginner. – Helen Hayes

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Teaching Empathy (from Edutopia)

With classrooms operating more like grade factories, it's hard to make the case for school-driven empathy. Faced with an endless cycle of memorize, drill, spit back and test, teachers have become the wardens of a new educational reality that pits the head against the heart. Even if educators manage to skate past the dizzying array of standards and value-added evaluations, they must still contend with this fundamental divide: academic rigor, with its unflinching emphasis on measurable success, seems strangely at odds with emotional intelligence, a soufflé of moods and feelings. Which leaves many to wonder -- can empathy feel its way back into the classroom?

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