I try to learn better, do better. I have no idea how I got to be the one at the front of the classroom, the one who gets to be in charge of things. Most of the time, I feel like the kid who gets to sit at the adult table for the first time at Thanksgiving. I'm not sure which fork to use. My feet can't reach the floor. Roxane Gay
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  2. It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. - Fulton J. Sheen

  3. Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle

  4. I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein

  5. I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable... - Haim G. Ginott

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  1. I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say...

  2. A man has never told me he likes me. Like is more interesting than love.

  3. Life, apparently, requires a trigger warning. This is the uncomfortable truth: everything is a trigger for someone. There are things you cannot tell just by looking at someone. We all have history. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>You can think you're over your history. You can think the...

  4. I knew I was in love with The Hunger Games when I did not want to get off the treadmill

  5. Love your friends' kids even if you don't want or like children. Just do it.

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