Word: grades
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...this, above all other things. In an institution that glorifies conventional notions of success, I believe the most important thing I learned here was how to fail. Failures are not the prettiest moments, and on graduation day, one is reluctant to remember crying over a poor Expository Writing grade or the emotional crisis of the first month of freshman year. Yet, without these moments, I would not be so proud of where I am today. I would not have felt as much joy in my grade on the next paper. I would not be so proud of the many things...
When I was in third grade at the New Lincoln School in Manhattan, a clever sex education teacher showed my class a movie on drugs. In the style of classics like Reefer Madness, the film showed how different drugs were produced, how people could ingest them, and their extremely nasty side effects. Heroin was fashionable at the time, so glistening hypodermics and needle-tracked arms were prominently featured, along with short biographies of celebrities who had died of overdoses. Although the effect of such films on children today has probably been greatly diffused by constant exposure to drugs...
...Within a month, I was teaching fourth grade in Roxbury,” he said...
...sociologists expected to see evidence of selfish behavior. But they did not. "People kept talking about the orderliness of it all," says Feinberg. "People used what they had learned in grade-school fire drills. 'Stay in line. Don't push. We'll all get out.' People were queuing up! It was just absolutely incredible...
...guerre, Manuel Marulanda--or by the nickname Tirofijo, "Sureshot," which he earned for his marksmanship. The son of a peasant farmer, and a rebel fighter since his teens, Marulanda lived much of his life in Colombia's mountains and jungles. There, despite having only a sixth-grade education, he directed FARC's antigovernment operations, kidnapping and, later, drug trafficking. He was believed...