Blogging Quote by Joan Countryman

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear,…

— Immanuel Kant

Class is knowing what to say, when to say it, and when to stop.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“I cut our school time to the most important and let the kids have the rest of the time to play — which it…

— Pam Barnhill

It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.

— Debra Messing

“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.”

— Marilyn Johnson

“the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.”

— Adam Begley

Class is knowing what to say, when it should be said and knowing when you should stop.

— Anonymous

“Something has changed, and now, when I look at my students, I see only people who are going to eat up my time.”

— David Sedaris

“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even…

— Ralph Fletcher

Why do the teachers make us do homework as they sit on there phones playing angry birds?

— Hailey

“Within the grand scale of things, sitting in a classroom day after day is so utterly meaningless and pointless that it actually makes his…

— Tabitha Suzuma

“We had to keep explaining things, backtracking and filling gaps. We realised our own conversations had evolved into a kind of shorthand, a tidy,…

— Steven Hall