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However, unless educational reformers take children seriously, reform, at the very least, is hollow and arrogant. A child is still closer than any adult to the experience of childhood. No adult lives under the same stress of rapid personal growth and change. Few adults can approach the world with the same unclouded curiosity. Without romanticizing childhood, it is legitimate to maintain that the free expression of children's energies and perceptions is necessary for education, and that taking the insights of children seriously is crucial for the personal development of children and for improving their individual classroom settings as well...
...charred corpses of chickens, pigs and people. I learned that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the petrified, ashen remains of a pig from those of a human being, particularly if the human being was a child whose lower limbs were blown off in the explosions. In a little hollow, one worker was sifting through the ashes with one hand, while, in the other hand, he held a roasted human foot. As he worked, a few small boys, their faces somehow old with fear, moved among the silent onlookers begging for money...
...impressed with the fact that I was going to interview someone at the Ritz-Carlton, and had inspired me with such an otherwise non-existent curiosity about the mystique of those hallowed halls. As I walked through the doors, I indulged myself in the bad pun that they were hollow, not hallowed. The "someone" I was going to interview had gradually taken on a secondary importance, even in my mind. Only slowly, ever so slowly, had it begun to dawn on me that the Ritz-Carlton, spectacular as it might be, had taken on such alluring dimensions only in comparison...
Bingham delivered exposed films to the Soviets by leaving them at one of seven "dead drops" in or near the town of Guildford, including a tree, a hollow under a bridge, and a car door in a rural trash heap. In turn, the Soviets left a "parcel"-a hollow sphere made of putty and shaped like a stone, containing a fresh supply of film, instructions and sometimes money...
Some might call the noncompetitive performance a hollow triumph, native sports do not even call for medals. There are, however, gold, silver and bronze ulus (medals shaped like the Eskimo whale-skinning knife) for individual and team winners in such conventional sports as cross-country skiing, figure skating, basketball, ice hockey and table tennis. The combination of exotic native feats and intense territorial rivalry have made the games the liveliest sporting event north of the 60th parallel...