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14a8ce3 "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." depression learning education teaching T.H. White
3be0613 Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. wisdom sharing foolishness knowledge teaching Hermann Hesse
9fd2e9c "It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?" humour humor teaching Terry Pratchett
d705af3 A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty. learning life teaching John Grogan
6f1c9a7 We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. life teaching Stephen King
bcaf488 If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself. light education inspirational teaching Romain Rolland
66dfa57 Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass. knowledge teaching P.C. Cast
2aa787e Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. parenting teaching Haruki Murakami
dccb800 Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. personality positive life wisdom educational expectation teaching expectations Brian Tracy
c3c38c9 Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. learning education knowledge teaching Plato
9fe4d70 Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers. learning teaching Richard Bach
e5fc09c My words itch at your ears till you understand them teaching-as-leadership teaching Walt Whitman
6399320 Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. learning teaching Frank Herbert
19fac5e Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself. teaching Paulo Coelho
8894645 A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. teacher teaching students Fulton J. Sheen
f5337f5 I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know. teaching Orson Scott Card
be2612e Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. reading women teaching Virginia Woolf
bd20e08 "The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul." teaching Muriel Spark
21f64de "That's what education should be," I said, "the art of orientation. Educators should devise the simplest and most effective methods of turning minds around. It shouldn't be the art of implanting sight in the organ, but should proceed on the understanding that the organ already has the capacity, but is improperly aligned and isn't facing the right way." teaching Plato
3393b26 If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. hood justice teaching Stephen R. Lawhead
31a8df1 Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly. leadership mentoring encouragement teaching parenthood Pat Conroy
1606c96 You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it. teaching children Steve Martin
f3271c3 Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they understand how indebted they are to those who instructed them. Good teachers expect no praise or love from the young. They wait for it, and in time, it comes. teaching Darren Shan
eb76287 "So you'll teach me?" Val asked. Ravus nodded agin. "I will make you as terrible as you desire." "I don't want to be - ," she started, but he held up his hand. "I know you're very brave," he said. "Or stupid." " stupid. Brave Stupid." Ravus smiled, but then his smile sagged. "But nothing can stop you from being terrible once you've learned how." -- learned terrible stupid teaching Holly Black
c1738f8 Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama. And I wanted my teachers to make me smart. A great teacher is my adversary, my conqueror, commissioned to chastise me. He leaves me tame and grateful for the new language he has purloined from other kings whose granaries are filled and whose libraries are famous. He tells me that teaching is the art of theft: of knowing what to steal and from whom. Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me. They ride with me during all my days, and I pass on to others what they have imparted to me. I exchange their handy gifts with strangers on trains, and I pretend the gifts are mine. I steal from the great teachers. And the truly wonderful thing about them is they would applaud my theft, laugh at the thought of it, realizing they had taught me their larcenous skills well. passion teaching Pat Conroy
b498a3b This is precisely why I being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed-up poppinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard-done-by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise what the Dark Lord may be planning. teaching J.K. Rowling
3a77dad Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it. wisdom teachers teaching Nicholas Sparks
007bcdf But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world. writing teaching Umberto Eco
41011d8 When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down. teaching children Anne Lamott
4d6bceb ...you seemed to be listening to me, not to find out useful information, but to try to catch me in a logical fallacy. This tells us all that you are used to being smarter than your teachers, and that you listen to them in order to catch them making mistakes and prove how smart you are to the other students. This is such a pointless, stupid way of listening to teachers that it is clear you are going to waste months of our time before you finally catch on that the only transaction that matters is a transfer of useful information from adults who possess it to children who do not, and that catching mistakes is a criminal misuse of time. time captain-dimak catching-mistakes misuse-of-time information mistakes teaching children Orson Scott Card
b6e8072 You mean you live down here?' Matilda asked. 'I do', Miss Honey replied, but she said no more. Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living. She had always regarded her purely as a teacher, a person who turned up out of nowhere and taught at school and then went away again. teaching Roald Dahl
7c121fb I don't like being with grown-up people. I've known that a long time. I don't like it because I don't know how to get on with them. kids youth growing-up teachers teach teaching nostalgia Fyodor Dostoyevsky
84ee194 When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth motherhood education life teaching Chinua Achebe
8d196a1 "For Socrates, all virtues were forms of knowledge. To train someone to manage an account for Goldman Sachs is to educate him or her in a skill. To train them to debate stoic, existential, theological, and humanist ways of grappling with reality is to educate them in values and morals. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. Morality is the product of a civilization, but the elites know little of these traditions. They are products of a moral void. They lack clarity about themselves and their culture. They can fathom only their own personal troubles. They do not see their own bases or the causes of their own frustrations. They are blind to the gaping inadequacies in our economic, social, and political structure and do not grasp that these structures, which they have been taught to serve, must be radically modified or even abolished to stave off disaster. They have been rendered mute and ineffectual. "What we cannot speak about" Ludwig Wittgenstein warned "we must pass over in silence." intellectual information teaching Chris Hedges
f803d06 My first semester I had only nine students. Hoping they might view me as professional and well prepared, I arrived bearing name tags fashioned in the shape of maple leaves. teaching David Sedaris
86c4715 We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can be good about large classes. It's a strange thing isn't it, to have an educational philosophy that thinks of the other students in the classroom with your child as competitors for the attention of the teacher and not allies in the adventure of learning. learning education teaching psychology Malcolm Gladwell
2d3772c Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. reading life-lessons education teachers literacy literate-culture teaching Louis L'Amour
d5cf8c0 For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire. admire teachers-and-learners student teacher teaching Orson Scott Card
788e7e1 Grades really cover up failure to teach. A bad instructor can go through an entire quarter leaving absolutely nothing memorable in the minds of his class, curve out the scores on an irrelevant test, and leave the impression that some have learned and some have not. But if the grades are removed the class is forced to wonder each day what it's really learning. The questions, What's being taught? What's the goal? How do the lectures and assignments accomplish the goal? become ominous. The removal of grades exposes a huge and frightening vacuum. learning grades grading-systems public-school school-system teaching Robert M. Pirsig
f97ee00 A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be. knowledge teaching Christopher Paolini
f511a0e I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people. leadership education servanthood teaching St. Augustine of Hippo
a2712d1 Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. mentoring teaching Pat Conroy
7f7fd19 ...teaching is, after all, a form of show business. comedy teachers teacher teaching Steve Martin
d466274 The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations. vocation teaching creativity Madeleine L'Engle
663349a their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. inspiring teaching Mark Helprin
dd448c8 Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sagely, as if you have known it all your life, and teach what you have known for decades with enthusiasm, as if you learned it only yesterday. teaching Mercedes Lackey
a156caf The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers. writing satire teaching David Sedaris
526be76 Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers. teaching Brian Herbert
1960366 "I noticed that the [drawing] teacher didn't tell people much... Instead, he tried to inspire us to experiment with new approaches. I thought of how we teach physics: We have so many techniques - so many mathematical methods - that we never stop telling the students how to do things. On the other hand, the drawing teacher is afraid to tell you anything. If your lines are very heavy, the teacher can't say, "Your lines are too heavy." because *some* artist has figured out a way of making great pictures using heavy lines. The teacher doesn't want to push you in some particular direction. So the drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems." richard-feynman teaching physics Richard Feynman
e259b27 There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution. learning inquiry thinking teaching Neil Postman
c78ffa8 I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true. teaching Patricia A. McKillip
168f76e It may take a decade or two before the extent of Shakespeare's collaboration passes from the graduate seminar to the undergraduate lecture, and finally to popular biography, by which time it will be one of those things about Shakespeare that we thought we knew all along. Right now, though, for those who teach the plays and write about his life, it hasn't been easy abandoning old habits of mind. I know that I am not alone in struggling to come to terms with how profoundly it alters one's sense of how Shakespeare wrote, especially toward the end of his career when he coauthored half of his last ten plays. For intermixed with five that he wrote alone, , , , , and , are (written with Thomas Middleton), (written with George Wilkins), and , the lost , and (all written with John Fletcher). shakespeare history-of-thought collaboration teaching James Shapiro
7cf361f Whenever you feel short or need of something, give what you want first, and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love or friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may do, but it has always worked for me. I trust that the principle of prosperity is true, and I give what I want. I want money, so I give money, and it comes back in multiples. I want sales, so I help someone else sell something, so sales come to me. I want contacts, and I help someone else get contacts. Like magic, contacts come to me. I heard a saying years ago that went: god does not need to receive, but humans need to give. My rich dad would often say: poor people are more greedy than rich people. He would explain that if a person is rich, that person is providing something that other people wanted...whenever I think people aren't smiling at me, I simply began smiling and saying hello. Like magic, the next thing I know: I'm surrounded by smiling people. It is true that you world is only a mirror of you. So that's why I say, teach and you shall receive. givers teaching Robert T Kiyosaki
bb69c52 Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. If you don't have the starch to stand up in class and admit what you don't understand, then I don't have the time to explain it to you. If you don't have a policy against nonsense you can wind up with a dozen timid little rabbits lined up in the hall outside your office, all waiting to whisper the same imbecilic question in your ear. timidity teaching Ann Patchett
fdf75cc Don't make me regret taking you on. If I get irritated, I might drown you a little bit. magic master-sebo numair teaching Tamora Pierce
ce9bf95 Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed--guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible. illness teaching guilt Richard Russo
81c531c Instruction is good for a child; but example is worth more. youth lead-by-example raising-children example role-models parenting teaching children Alexandre Dumas
714439e New learning never hurt anybody. learning new teach learn teaching Tamora Pierce
44f13c6 This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student. education mentoring teaching Rebecca Goldstein
d6038b1 If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two, three years old, how to look for the way, the signs of the path, the landmarks, then it gets lost in the mountain, doesn't it? And dies in the night, in the cold. teaching Ursula K. Le Guin
32246e5 I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation. motivation integration openness curiosity teaching Robert A. Heinlein
bb49b61 I won't tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else's notions thrust upon you. critical-thought teacher teaching Christopher Paolini
5c9f1ec Henry David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, W. E. B. DuBois, and Lyndon B. Johnson are just a few of the famous Americans who taught. They resisted the fantasy of educators as saints or saviors, and understood teaching as a job in which the potential for children's intellectual transcendence and social mobility, though always present, is limited by real-world concerns such as poor training, low pay, inadequate supplies, inept administration, and impoverished students and families. These teachers' stories, and those of less well-known teachers, propel this history forward and help us understand why American teaching has evolved into such a peculiar profession, one attacked and admired in equal proportion. teaching Dana Goldstein
1ca58a2 If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. teaching John Irving
a9b0377 "The best company is when you are with those who bring out the best in you and those who inspire you to do what you love doing (Something "good."). Seneca realised that teaching and development comes from learning especially from those who at the time have a deep knowledge of all things and areas. The best teacher is the one who makes it fun and interesting at the same time. Whatever the subject, especially when teaching our children who absorb things so well, the way in which we convey the knowledge is vital to the development process." fun educational-philosophy knowledge teaching Alexander Lloyd Curran
f431aaf I realized I was a teacher when I felt warm during class and got up to open the door. Later on there was noise in the hallway, so I got up and shut it. Students can't open and close the door whenever they feel like it. college teaching David Sedaris
e31de11 Adrienne started teaching a few months ago in Denver and wrote that it leaves you with a constant feeling of deceiving people. That you know nothing they don't, or couldn't learn on their own if they cared to. teaching David Sedaris
a96c445 One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it. wisdom teaching Hermann Hesse
da5a707 Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her or his potential, and to pursue a subject of considerable importance without restrictions imposed by anything except the inherent demands of the material. educational-philosophy teaching Jay Parini
a4f9cff And speaking of this wonderful machine: [840] I'm puzzled by the difference between Two methods of composing: , the kind Which goes on solely in the poet's mind, A testing of performing words, while he Is soaping a third time one leg, and , The other kind, much more decorous, when He's in his study writing with a pen. In method B the hand supports the thought, The abstract battle is concretely fought. The pen stops in mid-air, then swoops to bar [850] A canceled sunset or restore a star, And thus it physically guides the phrase Toward faint daylight through the inky maze. But method is agony! The brain Is soon enclosed in a steel cap of pain. A muse in overalls directs the drill Which grinds and which no effort of the will Can interrupt, while the automaton Is taking off what he has just put on Or walking briskly to the corner store [860] To buy the paper he has read before. literature writing pencil paper pen teaching Vladimir Nabokov
57b9801 How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have--or need--answers. compassion life growing-up difference teaching children Madeleine L'Engle
71d90fe When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it. This seemed to make sense. He was ready to resign. Teaching dull conformity to hateful students wasn't what he wanted to do. education how-teaching-kills-creativity schools schooling teaching university Robert M. Pirsig
6823aa1 Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the bard, the singer of tales is a freer of men's minds and bodies, especially when he roams without allegiance to one chieftain or another. But he is also a danger to the masters if he insists upon telling the truth. The truth will inevitably cause tremors in those who cling to power without honoring justice. freedom truth teaching power Kate Horsley
4a79311 But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. teaching Alice Walker
9f1fd7d I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane. literature truth teaching Mary Rose O'Reilley
1fd1fb1 The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way. existence courage challenges speaking teachers mistakes teaching Madeleine L'Engle
ff32648 Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told the distinction, and his perceptive powers were not at all deficient. I fancy they were quite as strong as those of the Rev. Mr Stelling; for Tom could predict with accuracy what number of horses were cantering behind him, he could throw a stone right into the centre of a given ripple, he could guess to a fraction how many lengths of his stick it would take to reach across the playground, and could draw almost perfect squares on his slate without any measurement. But Mr Stelling took no note of those things: he only observed that Tom's faculties failed him before the abstractions hideously symbolized to him in the pages of the Eton Grammar, and that he was in a state bordering on idiocy with regard to the demonstration that two given triangles must be equal - though he could discern with great promptitude and certainty the fact that they were equal. mill-on-the-floss student teachers teaching students George Eliot
2c0b9bb He singled out aspects of Quality such as unity, vividness, authority, economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance, precision, proportion, depth and so on; kept each of these as poorly defined as Quality itself, but demonstrated them by the same class reading techniques. He showed how the aspect of Quality called unity, the hanging-togetherness of a story, could be improved with a technique called an outline. The authority of an argument could be jacked up with a technique called footnotes, which gives authoritative reference. Outlines and footnotes are standard things taught in all freshman composition classes, but now as devices for improving Quality they had a purpose. And if a student turned in a bunch of dumb references or a sloppy outline that showed he was just fulfilling an assignment by rote, he could be told that while his paper may have fulfilled the letter of the assignment it obviously didn't fulfill the goal of Quality, and was therefore worthless. learning outlines what-is-quality how-to-write research rhetoric writing-craft quality writing-process teaching Robert M. Pirsig
4f736df Adjunct teachers are the professorial equivalent of the migrant Mexican farm laborers hired during harvest. If you can get a good contract at the same farm every year, where the farmer pays you on time and doesn't cheat or abuse you, then it's in your best interest to show up consistently from year to year. migrant-laborers mexicans teaching Ruth Ozeki
394171a The world is a very, very fine place. It wasn't a mess. It didn't need to be conquered and ruled by man. In other words, the world doesn't belong to man - but it does need man to belong to it. creature had to be the first to go through this... creature had to find the way, and if that happened, then...there was no limit to what could happen here. In other words, man does have a place in the world, but it's not his place to rule...Man's place is to be the first. Man's place is to be the first without being the last. Man's place is to figure out how it's possible to do that - and then to make room for all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become. And maybe, when the time comes, it's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become. Not the only teacher, not the ultimate teacher. Maybe only the first teacher, the kindergarten teacher - but even that wouldn't be too shabby. teaching Daniel Quinn
984f880 By degrees they spoke of education , and the book-learning that forms one part of it; and the result was that Ruth determined to get up early all throughout the bright summer mornings, to acquire the knowledge hereafter to be give to her child. Her mind was uncultivated, her reading scant; beyond the mere mechanical arts of education she knew nothing; but she had a refined taste, and excellent sense and judgment to separate the true from the false. reading learning wisdom knowledge teaching Elizabeth Gaskell
2aeda18 People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. growing teaching Jennifer Chiaverini
98f1094 A question asked in earnest, deserves an earnest answer. teaching Christopher Moore
ffcc346 Experience alone isn't a good enough teacher - evaluated experience is. teaching John C. Maxwell
ef21b21 Doit chascuns panser et antandre A bien dire et a bien aprandre ; Qu'il est louable de s'appliquer a bien dire et a bien enseigner. studying teaching Chrétien de Troyes
9f62a0c Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine? If you are lucky enough to find your way to such teachers, you will always find your way back. Sometimes it is only in your head. Sometimes it is right alongside their beds. student teacher learn teaching Mitch Albom
61037ce Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. teacher-quotes classroom questioning class teach teacher questions teaching Ann Patchett
2705579 Is there any teacher better, more patient, more determined than fate? teaching Barry Eisler
51c31ad The teaching goes on teaching Mitch Albom
8d64729 Hannah wanted to put the next day's work on the blackboard. This would mean that she needn't turn her back on the class first thing, which is as unwise in junior teaching as in lion-taming. primary-school stage-school teacher-quotations theatre-school teacher-quotes teaching school Penelope Fitzgerald
eb6d699 Which one is really my child? The one I brought forth with my own groans who has no liking for the thing I love most in all the world, or the stranger's child whom fate placed in my life, the one who is absorbing and treasuring every word I give her, whose eyes are learning every day, whom I would love to teach... teacher mother teaching Susan Vreeland
d46715e "... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it." world death life the-wise teaching Elizabeth Gilbert
ed5a6c3 It was one of the only times in my teaching career that I got angry and showed it in class. I was young and inexperienced, and I thought certain standards were respected and understood. inexperience respect teaching standards Azar Nafisi
04713e1 Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes. courage living life carpe-diem teachings cynicism teenagers curiosity teaching Donald Barthelme
e357922 I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us to question what we took for granted. It questioned traditions and expectations when they seemed too immutable. I told my students I wanted them in their readings to consider in what ways these works unsettled them, made them a little uneasy, made them look around and consider the world, like Alice in Wonderland, through different eyes. reading teaching Azar Nafisi
b01f9aa And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand? teaching Alexander McCall Smith
17440d7 The fact that they were there as students presumed they did not know what was good or bad. That was his job as instructor...to tell them what was good or bad. The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea of the University. learning education schools self-expression teaching university Robert M. Pirsig
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