Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.

Joyce Carol Oates
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  1. I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;... - Neil Gaiman
  2. We shouldn't teach great books we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner
  3. You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers. - Amit Kalantri
  4. Oh God, teach us thy truth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
  5. Parents must teach their children the fear of God. - Lailah Gifty Akita
More Quotes By Joyce Carol Oates
  1. Suffering teaches joy.
  2. It is not where we are that matters nor what we have, it is what we do with where we are and what we have.
  3. I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.
  4. If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.
  5. Never mistrust, unless given a reason.
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