The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was … - Tracy Kidder

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A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Tracy Kidder

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

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Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

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Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

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I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

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Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

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