I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
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I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
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- I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.
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- You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they're smart people. But you don't throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.
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- I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
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- But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.
- And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.
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