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"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"
"Today I can joyfully say that one of the best undertakings I have ever made was to study the subject of responsibility."
"Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom."
"Teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke."
"Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons)."
"Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!"
"More faults are created than cured by professional teachers."
Explore more quotes by Jane Rule
"Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't."
"People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives."
"Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better."
"I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art."
"If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us."
"Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique."
"I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think."
"If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence."
"Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression."
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