“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.”
“If you teach your children how to bully, or do nothing to stop them, teach them also how to die for their cause.”
“Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry.”
“Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it.”
“When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow.”
“That's a rare thing: to love someone, not for how you think of them, but for how they think of themselves.”