Education Quote by Tracy Kidder Download Open image “People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.” — Tracy Kidder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education I think Nonsense People People say Say Teach Think Writing You
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I think a lot of what goes into writing can be taught - not mixing metaphors, etc. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
“He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, "I have learned never to say, 'Never again.” — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“In the process Paul laid out a comprehensive theory of poverty, of a world designed by the elites of all nations to serve their… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
“Farmer liked to tell his Harvard students that to be a good clinician you must never let a patient know that you have problems… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people. — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
