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!
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
The adolescent must never be treated as a child, for that is a stage of life that he has surpassed. It is better to treat an adolescent as if he had greater value than he actually shows than as if he had less and let him feel that his merits and self-respect are disregarded.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
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