My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had….

I was a pretty hyperactive kid, kind of ADD. I couldn't really stay sitting in my chair, so my kindergarten teacher would have me standing at the bac….

As a teacher, it is your job to make explicit whatever you though was implicit.

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese..

Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckh….

Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another car….

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I ….

To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't..

I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going..

No child is taught to kill, but he has to be taught to love, respect, honor and value, not only his own life, but the lives of his classmates, parent….

In my retirement I go for a short swim at least once or twice every day. It's either that or buy a new golf ball..

Differentiation is simply a teacher attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small groups of students, rather than teaching a class….

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to….

There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is Hi….

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow g….

Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our m….

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking..

What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children'….

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used ….

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runner….

If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing ….