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- Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came…
- The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention,…
- You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher
- No one’s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick…
- When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can…
- Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
- When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want…
- When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that…
- I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.
- So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism…
- Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them.…
- And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these…
- All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends…
- We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal…
- This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight…
- Nothing again. No one is listening. No one is waiting to hear the kicking of a man above. It is unexpected. You have no ears…
- GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE…
- There's nothing to be gained from passive observance, the simple documenting of conditions, because, at its core, it sets a bad example. Every time something…
- How many times in life can we make decisions that are important but will not hurt anyone? Are we obligated- maybe we are- to say…
- But that's one lifetime." Yeah." But while doing that one I'd want to be able to have done other stuff. Whole other lives- the one…
- One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He was warm,…
- The voice of the nickly reflection of the moon was not as deep as you might expect. It was a singer’s voice, though, a tenor,…
- She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when…
- Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of…
- But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home,…
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