You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
Dr. SeussRead
Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!
Interpretation
Keep an open mind and you will discover amazing things.
This quote by Dr. Seuss encourages individuals, especially the young, to remain curious and attentive to the world around them. By being observant and engaged, one can learn invaluable lessons and discover the wonders that life has to offer.
In practice
In a classroom setting to inspire students to be observant.
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.
No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.
One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.
There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don't find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.
Many go through life afraid of numbers and upset by numbers. They would rather amble along through life miscounting, miscalculating and, in general, mismanaging their worldly affairs than make friends with numbers.
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