Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.
The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.
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.
Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of my painting background.
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
We learned early on that we had chemistry and I was so grateful for that. It's like one of the few magical things about film that still exists.