“Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift." George Amberson/Jake Epping in Stephen King's 11/22/63”
“We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).”
“A teacher isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
“George Gershwin died on July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.”
“What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.”
“Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.”