"When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn"

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Source : LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.8, Macmillan

LouAnne Johnson

#Teacher Quotes #Class Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.”
“There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye”
“A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.”
“There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.”
“A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.”
“Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.”
“Go to find common ground; where you can't, you stand your ground.”
“Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out.”

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