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Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. Rob Sheffield
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You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around. Richelle Mead
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Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight. William Zinsser
teacher attitude kids
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man. William Saroyan
teacher educational philosophy
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. William James
teacher educational philosophy
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence. William James
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Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help. William James
teacher art teaching
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist. William James
teacher art teaching
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand." William James
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Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch. Stephen Jones
books choice freedom key kids motivated reason
Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited. James Patterson
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Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion. Spike Jonze
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Kids are not interested in taking their summer vacation to start thinking about back-to-school wardrobes, supplies and book bags. Marshal Cohen
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I wrote this book for a sense of personal satisfaction. Just like taking a good photograph or painting a picture or playing a good golf game or something, it's the thing in itself that justifies it. William Rehnquist
bookstore crime love people shelves solving
Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles. Jan Nash
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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in 20 minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. Lord Byron
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HARLOW: "I was reading a book the other day . . . the guy said machinery is going to take the place of every profession."/ DRESSLER: "Oh, my dear, that's something you'll never have to worry about. Jean Harlow
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It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great. Graeme Base
reading sea library
We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it. Richard Dawkins
reading wife secret
But in reading Shakespeare and in reading about Edward de Vere, it's quite apparent that when you read these works that whoever penned this body of work was firstly well-travelled, secondly a multi-linguist and thirdly someone who had an innate knowledge of the inner workings and the mechanisms of a very secret and paranoid Elizabethan court. Edward de Vere ticks those three boxes and many more. William of Stratford gave his wife a bed when he died [his second best bed]. Rhys Ifans
reading thinking scripts
I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff. Rebecca Eaton
reading feelings literature
I grew up in Mississippi being told it was a great place, but not feeling that. When I finally began reading seriously, literature showed me something about where I was from which was worthwhile. Richard Ford
reading writing
To write you had to read so I backed into reading. Richard Ford
reading book wonderful
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. Roald Dahl
reading next wonder
I'm wondering what to read next. Roald Dahl
reading past years
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years. Richard Powers
reading writing eye
The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted. Richard Powers