Sandercoe Guitar Quotes & Sayings

Back-cover blurb from 'Total Hindi, 2017 : "It's always been clear to me, as it was to Michel Thomas himself, that learning to speak a new language is like learning to swim or dance - you don't start with books or notes on swimming or dance. You get into the water, or on the dance floor, with a good coach, and get on with it." - Akshay Bakaya — Akshay Bakaya

Giggling should be made illegal. — J.K. Rowling

The allies are looking carefully at the relationship. — James Appathurai

It was just enough to sit there without words. — Louise Erdrich

What comes, is called. — Ki Longfellow

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered. — Jane Fonda

frustration has flared up over the Common Core initiative, involving the implementation of national reading and maths standards for primary and secondary school children. The Gates Foundation played a central role in bringing the standards to fruition. Spending over $233 million to back the standards, the foundation dispersed money liberally to both conservative and progressive interest groups. The two major teachers' unions, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, each received large donations, as did the US Chamber of Commerce. Gates himself suggested that a benefit of the standards is that they open avenues towards increasing digital learning. In 2014, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Pearson to load Pearson's Common Core classroom material onto Microsoft's Surface tablet. Previously, the iPad was the classroom frontrunner; the Pearson partnership helps to make Microsoft more competitive. — Linsey McGoey

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane — Charlie Chaplin