teaching

Comport yourself with grace under pressure.

People in the city are poor because they are oppressed, discriminated against and alienated; people in the country are poor because they're too stupid to realize they ought to be living in the city.

The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.

If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

When someone is attacking you, they are coming to you for advice.

Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

For the advice in a joke is sometimes more useful than the most serious teaching.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it always teaches us something of utmost importance _ usually about ourselves _ and we become better people for it.

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

... because Mr. Applebaum, who is ostensibly teaching us precalculus but is mostly teaching me that pain and suffering must be endured stoically, says, "You feel what, Tiny?".

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

You have to get clear in your present life _ clear of the junk from your past.

Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.

watch out for schools that promise your kids will "experience success." I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

If you want meaning in your life you must give your life meaning.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.