Education Quote by Marilyn Johnson

“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

“I can’t teach you how to write, and anybody who says they can is full of shit.”

— Hank Moody

“Writing can be learned, but not taught.”

— Robert Heinlein

“It is my personal belief that writing cannot be taught.”

— Parnell Hall

“The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the…

— David Sedaris

“Teachers need to sit with their journal and write in the voice of that teenager. Write and remember. That’s who we teach!”

— Penny Kittle

“the teacher should model by writing—and think out loud while writing—in front of the class.”

— Kelly Gallagher

“You don't teach a person how to write as much as you teach that person how to survive the writing process.”

— Rowan Ricardo Phillips

“Teaching writing is a hustle.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act…

— Anne Lamott

“...[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

“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.”

— Scott Ciencin