Schools and students will manage without perfect notebooks, but without belief in students and teachers, without a mindset that understands what is possible when we try, struggle, and keep trying, that values teachers and learners, schools will fail to supply us with the life-long learners and effective doers that our world so sorely needs.
Go off without the notebooks, sneak in over the weekend and copy them?
Please stop taking my order without a notebook.
I had run into Posman Books after getting off my train and finding myself without a notebook, and grabbed what Moleskine, the high-end paper packager, calls a reporter's notebook.
The fact remains that, given the choice between a vacation without a notebook and a revolution with one, most of us would pass on the yellow sundress or the cargo pants and buy a flak jacket.
Without The Notebook there would be no PS I Love You, no American remake of The Lake House, no My Sister's Keeper, No The Time Traveller's Wife and arguably no Twilight.
In a question-and-answer piece in the Times Book Review for January 16 , 1966 George Plimpton quoted Truman Capote claiming that he had trained himself to recall dialogue with such accuracy that he could interview people without a notebook or a tape recorder and then, hours later, write down verbatim what was said, his accuracy exceeding ninety per cent.
And obviously, I've remained glued to The X Factor and I'm a Celeb even without a notebook and pen at my side because, frankly, I've always been riveted by great reality TV – and, no, that's not a contradiction in terms.
Plus, that USB port can charge any USB-supported devices without the notebook ever booting up.
Never go anywhere without a notebook because you can see a face that will be exactly the right face for one of your characters, you can see place and think of the perfect words to describe it.
