93 quotes found
“Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.”
“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...”
“I try to learn better, do better. I have no idea how I got to be the one at the front of the classroom, the one who gets to be in charge of things. Most of the time, I feel like the kid who gets to...”
“The problem of teaching, therefore, is getting not the facts but the context from my brain to yours.”
“I thought about being a teacher for three thousand years. It wouldn’t have made my Top Ten Things to Wish For list.”
“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”
“One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.”
“Shabelsky: O mind of genius, you think up things for everyone and teach everyone, but why not for once teach me... Teach me, great brain, show me the way out...”
“Was I gleeful, settled, content, during the hours I passed in yonder bare, humble schoolroom this morning and afternoon? Not to decieve myself, I must reply -- No: I felt desolate to a degree. I fe...”
“So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That's probably why the two are so ...”
“Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished”
“You cannot teach a man anything you can only help him to find it within himself.”
