All men are born equal, but quite a few eventually get over it.
If philosophy begins in wonder, pedagogy typically begins in frustration.
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again
Only when we have something to value, will we have something to evaluate. . and we cannot value something that we cannot share, exchange, and examine.
It is bad enough to reinvent the wheel. What really hurts is when they reinvent the flat tire.
Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.
I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.
God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.
I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.
It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.