“To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session.”
Yahia Lababidi (1973)
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“[I]nfatuation with characters still pervades American classrooms and holds back essential improvement in instruction.”
"The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform" (2006, p. 25) http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp171_chinese_writing_reform.pdf <br class="br">"The Prospects for Chinese Writing Reform" (2006)
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