Books Quote by Thom Gunn

Very clever. Nice trick. Who are they then, students? Is this a student thing or what?

— Rose Tyler

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

— Wilbert J. McKeachie

“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

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

— William Maxwell

One day, when I was doing well in class and had finished my lessons, I was sitting there trying to analyze the game of…

— Martin Gardner

I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable. It's not the…

— M. H. Abrams

I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need…

— Alice Mattison

Teacher: Please go to page 364 in your text book. Random kid in the back: HOLY CRAP I JUSTFLIPPED RIGHT TO THAT EXACT PAGE…

— Anonymous

I'm always telling my students, don't - don't worry so much third person, first person. It doesn't make that much difference.

— Alice McDermott

It is important to engage students by focussing at what they wanted to do, rather than forcing them to do something.

— Sonam Wangchuk

If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world,…

— Ellen Langer

When you walk into my classroom, I'm going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that's the only…

— Abby Lee Miller