“..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I'd rather my students take a thinking stance.”

“Arelene's middle name was tolerance, mostly because she was too easygoing to take a moral stance.”

“Like true friends, they take no hardy or elegant stance loosely choreographed from some broad perspective. They get right in there and mutter "Jesus Christ!" and shake their heads.”

“The relativists’ stance is extremely condescending: it treats a complex society as a monolith, obscures the conflicts within it, and takes its most obscurantist factions as spokespeople for the whole.”

“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.”

“When you’re in the role of the teacher, the teacher must take on the role of the student and learn from him or her.”