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"As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted."
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"A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability " where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn " where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society."
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"Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life."
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"My mother wasn't a fool," I say. "She just understood something you didn't. That it's not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil."I back up another step and say, "She taught me all about real sacrifice. That it should be done from love, not misplaced disgust for another person's genetics. That it should be done from necessity, not without exhausting all other options. That it should be done for people who need your strength because they don't have enough of their own. ..."
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"The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements."
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"Bhikkhus, the teaching is merely a vehicle to describe the truth. Don't mistake it for the truth itself. A finger pointing at the moon is notthe moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the moon itself, you will never knowthe real moon.The teaching is like a raft that carries you to the other shore. The raft is needed, but the raft is not the other shore. An intelligent personwould not carry the raft around on his head after making it across to the other shore. Bhikkhus, my teaching is the raft which can help youcross to the other shore beyond birth and death. Use the raft to cross to the other shore, but don't hang onto it as your property. Do notbecome caught in the teaching. You must be able to let it go."
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"You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself."
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"To teach you need books, to educate you need heart."
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"Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish."
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"Let's downplay the teachings on miracles and teach the values of hard work and diligence."
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"As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers."
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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
Commonsense
"It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another."
Creativity
"The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them."
Truth
"There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed."
Trust
"It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?"
Humor
"Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF."
History
"But it's not just a game of finding literary references."
Writing
"I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed."
Being
"But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms."
Science
"I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher."
Being
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