“In life, there is no lesson greater than patience; and so, there is no teacher greater than a fool.”
“If you want to teach something to water, you must be first a river, a lake, an ocean; you must be rain and flood, ice and hail, rime and snow! You must be all of them! But not enough! You must be something more, only then you can teach something to water!”
“You must question everything you learned because you should know that no matter what country you live in, you will often be taught stupid things!”
“It s like she s pulling Post-it notes out of her hair and lecturing from them, one of my peers once complained about the teaching style of my beloved teacher Mary Ann Caws. ...Ditto Eileen Myles, who tells a great story about a student at UC San Diego once complaining that her lecturing style was like throwing a pizza at us. My feeling is, you should be so lucky to get a pizza in the face from Eileen Myles, or a Post-it note plucked from the nest of Mary Ann Caws s hair.”
“Take a minute and think back to your favorite class. Chances are you do not remember the name of the textbook, the name of computer software, or the order in which the curriculum was taught. What you do remember is the person in charge of that class: the teacher.”
“A poorly made car, sofa, or meal can be easily returned or discarded. A poorly educated child cannot; factory recalls are not an option in education. There will never be a day when the evening newscaster announces, “Scottsdale High School issued a product recall on the graduating class of 2012. If you currently employ a member of the class of ‘12, please return him or her to the district office for a class of ‘17 upgrade.”
“Teachers should know that the quality of the answers depends significantly on the quality of the questions.”
“A poorly made car, sofa, or meal can be easily returned or discarded. A poorly educated child cannot; factory recalls are not an option in education. There will never be a day when the evening newscaster announces, Scottsdale High School issued a product recall on the graduating class of 2012. If you currently employ a member of the class of ‘12, please return him or her to the district office for a class of ‘17 upgrade.”
“It is not really a “Negro revolution” that is upsetting the country. What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity. If, for example, one managed to change the curriculum in all the schools so that Negroes learned more about themselves and their real contributions to this culture, you would be liberating not only Negroes, you’d be liberating white people who know nothing about their own history. And the reason is that if you are compelled to lie about one aspect of anybody’s history, you must lie about it all. If you have to lie about my real role here, if you have to pretend that I hoed all that cotton just because I loved you, then you have done something to yourself. You are mad.”
“ভাই আবেদ, তুমি তো জানো বারো বছর মাস্টারি করলে মানুষ গাধা হয়ে যায়। আমার পঁচিশ বছর চলছে।”
“I feel a swell of pride. This. This right here is why I wanted to become a teacher. To know that it is possible to change the world for the better, in however small a way.”
“Teaching is not entertainment, but it is unlikely to be successful unless it is entertaining (the more respectable word is interesting.)”
“Coverage of material is a snare and a delusion. You begin where students are prepared to begin; and you carry them as far as you can without losing them.”
“Johnny couldn t read until half a year ago for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how.”
“If you want to learn a subject, teach it.”
“I have learned over the years that many formally educated corrosion professionals are either engineers or chemists by training. While those two groups represent the largest two categories of backgrounds in the oilfield corrosion control industry, they are in the minority.”
“Sportsmanship can not be taught, it can be inculcated in ones persona through only one thing, called ‘SPORTS’.”