Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectation that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them. Pat Conroy
You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public or partisan opinion, when the mood of Beethoven's or Bach's music becomes the mood of your whole life … when your...
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Wilhelm Reich
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
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Robert Frost
The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
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Socrates
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
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Heather Brewer
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
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Aristotle
More Quotes By Pat Conroy
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.
The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
