"The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing."

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Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.76, Penguin

Taylor Mali

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“An opinion that goes beyond "Cute outfit!" is appreciated. If a person regularly comments and they too have a blog, and we have gotten to know each other's respective styles through commenting on each other's blogs - of course I'm more likely to check out their recommendations.”
“After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.”
“I think the dignity of Congress and the dignity of the country demands something more than merely censure here.”
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
“My husband said, 'Now you need to go and get a post-doctorate degree in tax law.' Tax law! I hate taxes. Why should I go and do something like that? But the Lord says, 'Be submissive, wives, you are to be submissive to your husbands.'”
“ThereÂ´s my date, I said. "Fashionably late." Nora (p. 232)”
“I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.”
“Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press

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