We're going to do it again next year. We'll see you again next year. Yeah, I said it. Yeah, I said it. We will do it again next year.
It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply question authority—you've got to speak with it too.
I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.
By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.
Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers. . . I just read all about their lives, their training.
nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have never striven for it and I have made some bad mistakes in consequence. What matter if I hold my readers?