"High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in."

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This reflection on education by Dave Eggers resonates across generations. It highlights a fundamental truth about human nature: our continuous search for meaning in education is what ultimately defines our character and our path forward.

About Dave Eggers

Dave Eggers is an American writer, editor, and publisher. As an author, he has written fiction, non-fiction, and children's books. His 2000 memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

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"I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning."

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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."

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"The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

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