Composition Quote by Ted Martinez

As a child, it was really hard because I'd be thrown into a new school and have to make new friends, or I'd sit…

— Alexander Dreymon

“Learning a language promoted the first tender shoots of intercultural understanding. People became familiar with previously alien concepts and, as a consequence, more open…

— Fay Abernethy

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so…

— Maeve Binchy

I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material,

— Eric Mazur

When I watch students make particular decisions about language, structure, and form, it sharpens my own thinking and my own development as a writer.

— Leni Zumas

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

— Donalyn Miller

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

— Maajid Nawaz

“[E]ducation is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of elementary and secondary education, of…

— Daniel Quinn

When I was little, I always got so excited about learning - until I got to the actual learning part of learning.

— Sarah Cooper

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort,…

— Michio Kaku

I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time,…

— Philip Glass

The language was not a big problem because my English was getting better every year. So, I really felt comfortable and I had trust…

— Cedi Osman