@JasonJAnger The value one has for reading is deeply personal. The goals of literacy instruction should depend on the context of the instruction and the desires/interests/abilities of the unique individuals being instructed. What we would prefer for our kids is often made irrelevant by them.

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There's lots of evidence as to the beneficial qualities of nicotine. Not that teens should use it, but better that then smoking. Most who use nicotine do so for the same reasons people love their coffee. https://t.co/xBbvmaf5sl

Looking for more detailed ones on teen use. https://t.co/7GNRxV99bP

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This is the equivalent of a priest insisting that people can't lead moral lives without the Church, who closes his eyes, plugs his ears, and loudly hums a hymn when secularists who lead moral lives raise their hands and ask to have a word.

“growing the customs sector” Translation: “increasing pointless frictional burdens and fattening up a compliance bureaucracy by siphoning off the profits and compromising the viability of good trading businesses.” Why is the @cabinetofficeuk pumping out this nonsense?

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Teaching isn't hard. Making people do things they don't want to do is.

IOW: "We're unable to create an environment that meets the most basic standards of social interaction expected in every other facet of life, so it's up to the *children* in our care to not have normal, human reactions to the negative behaviors we expect to see in our school."

A beautiful respite from negative things. https://t.co/j3MQeIATNh

I read this last year and it's one of the few books I've finished in two days. Can't recommend it highly enough as a model of investigative reporting driven by genuine curiosity, & a cogent analysis of how ideology too often overwhelms critical thinking. https://t.co/t9xl0TlYZh

“I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could’ve done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them.” ~ Kafka

Something's missing here...hmmmm...what is it...rhymes with "prudence." Fruitence? Moodents? Cluedents?

Just as with cops, regular, harmful practice goes well beyond this "bad apple" of a teacher. The principal enables this person to abuse kids. The teachers who work with this teacher and say nothing enable this person to abuse kids.

@gator_roller @pzmyers @tmcleanful @PsychRabble @sillyolyou @BretWeinstein @hollymathnerd @Pinkerite1 @mjaeckel @CathrynTownsend @Twitter @jessesingal @AaronPanofsky @primalpoly @EPoe187 @HeatherEHeying @nathanoseroff @clairlemon Everybody always thinks the other person isn’t arguing in good faith. It’s much more productive to give people the benefit of the doubt; it lowers the temperature, prevents escalation, and in my experience, prevents me from being angry & upset. It improves quality of life. 😁

This thread and the responses to it are fascinating when compared and contrasted with the messages and perceptions one most frequently finds in #edutwitter.

In addition to that callousness, I would add that non-fatal deployment is still a massive, often life-altering disruption in a person's life, and should not be treated like a game of Risk, if we want an all-volunteer armed forces to maintain morale and attract talent.