Kelly Gallagher famous quotes

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

#Teaching #Reading #Reader

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

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

#Opportunity #Ideas #Interesting

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

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

#Reading #Interesting #Lifelong

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

#Curiosity #Want #Materials

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 #Mean

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

If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

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

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.

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.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.

A book brings its own history to the reader.