John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.
I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.
Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.
Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?
I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.
The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.
All government is an ugly necessity.
What this country needs. . . what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.