"I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade."

-- Jonathan Kozol

#Teaching Quotes #School Quotes #Years Quotes

“I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish that goal.”
“Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.”
“Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the essay is a more social medium than the poem.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.”
“The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not.”
“I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.”
“The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.”
“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”

Source : David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK

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