There's something hostile about the way they enter and leave the room that tells you what they think of you. It could be your imagination and you try ...
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Everything in my head was secondhand, too: Catholicism; Ireland's sad history, a litany of suffering and martyrdom drummed into me by priests, schoolm...
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You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
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I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.
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To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to ...
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Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.
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First day of your teaching you are to stand at your classroom door and let your students know how happy you are to see them. Stand, I say. Any playwri...
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When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
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There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
