“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.”– Kurt Russell Related Quotes “Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I’m tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.”— Julian Baggini “In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students’ parents and community leaders.”— Wendy Kopp “Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.”— Marilyn Jager Adams