Education Quotes by William Deresiewicz

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

— William Deresiewicz

“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's…

— William Deresiewicz

“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.”

— William Deresiewicz

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

— William Deresiewicz

Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictability, control.…

— William Deresiewicz

“there’s a bigger social reward for being able to talk about books than for actually reading them.”

— William Deresiewicz

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

— William Deresiewicz

“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.”

— William Deresiewicz

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can…

— William Deresiewicz

“Life is more than a job; jobs are more than a paycheck; and a country is more than its wealth. Education is more than…

— William Deresiewicz

“By the time they finish high school—after years of learning how to please their teachers and coaches, not to mention schmoozing with their parents’…

— William Deresiewicz

“Getting A’s no longer means that everything’s okay, assuming that it ever did. “We have students, who, no matter what else is going on…

— William Deresiewicz