“I never tell students they cannot read a book they pick up, but I do guide them toward books that I think would be a good fit for them. I think of myself as a reading mentor-a reader who can help them find books they might like.” ThinkingBookHelpingMightWould BeReadingStudentsReaderFitPicksGuidesMentor Book:Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits Source: Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits
“I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.” ThinkingShouldAgeChoicesDecisionMistakeStudentsFitAdultsCriticismEducationalGuidesDevelopingCharacteristicsMaking MistakesDecision MakingTrustedDistrustDon't TrustCurriculumEducational SystemChoices And Decisions Author:Carl Rogers
“The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.” WritingIdeasWholeSeemsPoetryLiteratureUnderstandingSoundNovelStudentsFitSonnetDaft Author:Nicholas Royle
“From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I don't expect that to stop! His vision of God, God's faithfulness, God's purposes and so on is so much bigger and richer than almost any subsequent Christian thinker has ever managed. In addition, I have always loved ancient history, especially the history of the early Roman empire, and of course Paul fits right into that.” ChristianPurposeCoursesFoundVisionFiguresStudentsFitBiggerAncientFascinatingEmpiresThinkerCompellingFaithfulnessFascinationLifelongRoman EmpirePuzzlingAncient HistoryGod's Faithfulness Author:N. T. Wright
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.” YearsCoursesLiteratureStudyChangedStudentsCollegeFitMusicianThirdsExtraordinaryChanged My LifeConservatoryStudying Literature Author:Garth Greenwell
“I don't think the same curriculum fits every student body.” ThinkingBodyStudentsFitCurriculum Author:Louis Menand