12 quotes found
“Teaching is bringing the news.”
“I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.”
“Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.”
“When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.”
“They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.”
“There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.”
“To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.”
“You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?”
“Everything in my head was secondhand, too: Catholicism; Ireland's sad history, a litany of suffering and martyrdom drummed into me by priests, schoolmasters and parents who knew no better.”
“There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try to figure out what will bring them over to your...”
“First day of your teaching you are to stand at your classroom door and let your students know how happy you are to see them. Stand, I say. Any playwright will tell you that when the actor sits down...”
“Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'e...”
