teaching

Live in the present, or die in your past; it's your choice.

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.

Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects.

I was still learning when I taught my last class.

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher?The student replied: __verything!Kobun, paused, then said: __o, you".

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

So long as we learn it doesn__ matter who teaches us, does it?

Real education happens only by failing, changing, challenging, and adjusting. All of those gerunds apply to teachers as well as students. No person is an __ducator,_ because education is not something one person does to another. Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).

I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women _ and that was important to me back then _ would say, __h, really?_ and raise their eyebrows and look at me a little more carefully. I remember the first party I went to after I became a teacher, someone asked me what I did for a living, and I said, __ell, I teach high school._ He looked over my shoulder, nodded his head, said, __ went to high school,_ and walked away.Once I repeated this anecdote around a big table full of Mexican food in the garden at a place called La Choza in Chicago, and Becky Mueller, another teacher at the school, said that I was a __toryteller._ I liked that. I was looking for something to be other than __ust_ a teacher, and __toryteller_ felt about right. I am a teacher and a storyteller in that order. I have made my living and my real contribution to my community as a teacher, and I have been very lucky to have found that calling, but all through the years I have entertained myself and occasionally other people by telling stories.

But one of the things I have learned during the time I have spent in the United States is an old African American saying: Each one, teach one. I want to believe that I am here to teach one and, more, that there is one here who is meant to teach me. And if we each one teach one, we will make a difference.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships__ sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.