Pupils upon entering school are given only formal foldings. Gradually the work with the ruler is introduced, using inches at first and working into halves, quarters and eighths....tiresome monotony is avoided and the work is rendered interesting and attractive.

Constructive number work, when properly taught, affords the finest mental discipline of any study in the primary grades. It gives quickness of perception, the power of concentration and an intellectual grasp that can be acquired in no other branch of study.

How many Arizona stock brokers does Benjamin know? 🤔

And good people

We live in a golden age of applets

Those life choices

Jefferson didn't anticipate a 'free' press that was beholden to corporate owners.

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Please

This is such an important thing. When we talk about how men are “more direct” we really gloss over the social and sometimes material consequences women and especially women of color face for being direct about anything.

He’s always welcome on his golf course

They’re still under the illusion that by running a bland, do-nothing, bipartisan-talking centrist they’re going to do anything to keep the fire-breathing, do-anything, burn-it-down GOP from dragging them? How is that possible?

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