Teaching Quotes

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A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion. — Theodore Roethke
A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. — Richard Hugo
The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped. — Theodore Roethke
Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner. — Theodore Roethke
O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should… — Theodore Roethke
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this… — Denis Johnson
There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being… — Hilma Wolitzer
When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers. — Wallace Stegner
I can only gesture at what makes a story good. — Leonard Michaels
Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create. — Lillian Hellman
A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The… — William Stafford
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. — Robert Louis Stevenson
She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. — Gwyneth Paltrow
Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH. — Morihei Ueshiba
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent… — Noam Chomsky
I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product… — William Zinsser
The title which I most covet is that of teacher. The writing of a research paper and the teaching of freshman calculus, and everything in… — Unknown Author
It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher. — Linda Evangelista
Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit. — Molly Ivins

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