Quotes by Teaching We always get dressings and sauces on the side. However, we definitely like our glass of wine - or three sometimes. We order dessert but just take a few bites. I stopped buying processed foods. The hardest part is teaching this to our kids, but slowly we're making progress. Dayna Devon wineteachingkids In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in more forms, because many people prefer to engage with ideas in films, infographics, comics and other forms that are not traditional books or articles. Dean Spade teachingtalkingbook I have deliberated carefully about which of the terms that are unfamiliar to many of my readers I wanted to take time to introduce and explain, and which terms I would not introduce, despite the fact that I find them useful in my other work, in teaching, or in other activist contexts. Dean Spade introducingteachingfacts They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right. Dean Wareham teachingclassphilosophy I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical. Dean Spade readingteachingwar If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine. Debi Thomas learningathleteteaching Acting is somewhat mysteriously taught. There are so many different methods and systems and processes for teaching acting because it will always be an elusive art-form. Deborah Ann Woll actingteachingart I was the type of person who was the question-asker. And not just genuine questions, I would ask a question so the author would know how much I knew about them. Once I went to a Tobias Wolff reading. I knew he was teaching at Syracuse at that time. And so, I remember asking him how he liked Syracuse. People do that to me now and it's okay. There is rarely a time when I just have had enough. David Sedaris readingteachingpeople My days are filled with work I love - reading poems, writing poems, talking with people about poems, teaching, directing a writing program, hosting readings, etc. Deborah Landau readingteachingwriting We cannot silence the voices that we do not like hearing. We can, however, do everything in our power to make certain that other voices are heard. Deborah Prothrow-Stith voiceteachingjustice Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids. Deborah Meier teachingteacherkids Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling. Deborah Meier teachinglistening Teaching is listening, learning is talking Deborah Meier teachinglisteningtalking I have a seven-level program and through even into the fifth level it can be all done from a distance. "Why not?" is how I feel about it, because energy is not confined by time or space, so why should my teaching be. I'm teaching energy and how to manage it, how to handle it, and how to heal with it. Deborah King distancespaceteaching The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so. Deborah Meier teachingtryingart Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character. Debra Monroe teachingwritingcharacter As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like the obvious choice - those summers off, you know - but my experience may serve as a cautionary tale. Debra Dean teachingsummerjobs Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor. Debra Dean teachingwritingjobs I've been a teacher all my life. I've had my own dance studio, my own acting studio for 18 years out here... I'm just a natural teacher. I teach on all my healing work now. I think actors teach any time they work anyway. We're teaching emotions, we're teaching how to deal with emotions, we're teaching how to get around issues and deal with them. Actors are some of the best teachers in the world, because they're teaching you through entertainment, and you don't know you're getting a message. Dee Wallace teachinghealingteacher One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct. Delarivier Manley painteachingpeople«3637383940414243444546»
