In 2010, the charity decided to focus on the children's awards as a way to encourage learning, reading and writing.
Immersing myself in the pleasure of learning – reading long books, talking until the early hours, being an art geek – was a new experience that I revelled in.
The A.D.A. Amendments Act expanded the original legislation's definition of disability to include impairments in "caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working".
I feel I am in danger of ignoring all these prompts for attention, hoping information will seep in by osmosis without me needing to make the effort of actually learning, reading or listening.
Or are you willing to admit that, today, you can learn from writing by women as much as we women have learned – and are learning, reading over the centuries – from writing by men?
Let's not forget that what we need in the real world -- as opposed to the credentialed world -- are the basic skills, a k a speaking, listening, thinking, learning, reading, writing, calculating, button-pushing, working, cooperating, borrowing ideas and the asking of relevant questions so that we can learn the job on the job.
