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Top 10 statements offered unsolicited today by third-graders:   • If you ever see a zombie, don’t set him on fire. You’ll just have...

Experto credite, wrote the poet Virgil. Trust one who has proved it. Everyone likes to think he is an expert in something. Or if not q...

Filling in for the elementary-school teacher can be both ego boosting and ego deflating, sometimes simultaneously, as I learned from tod...

At the start of a class I was teaching one day recently, a second-grader asked me if he could share something with his classmates. In fact, ...

Lining up the children in this morning’s kindergarten class just before dismissal on a sunny day, I had my sunglasses on top of my head. “Wh...