Kelly Gallagher famous quotes

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Teaching #Reading #Reader

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Curiosity #Want #Materials

Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Book #School #Commitment

What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Teacher #Reading #School

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Opportunity #Ideas #Interesting

Teach your students real-world writing purposes, add a teacher who models his or her struggles with the writing process, throw in lots of real-world mentor texts for students to emulate, and give our kids the time necessary to enable them to stretch as writers.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Teacher #Real #Struggle

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Reading #Thinking #Play

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.
-- Kelly Gallagher

#Reading #Interesting #Lifelong

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition

There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.

It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I am not a good cue card reader.

Every text assumes a reader.