“This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.” GivingBitsPerfectTeacherExampleStudentsSpeechPagesDecidedCrowdsCommunicateChosenAdministrationIncidentsWebsiteExposingWikipediaTeacher And StudentClassmatesContentiousGraduation SpeechValedictorians Author:Nick Kroll
“I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.” LongDreamGirlClassBoysTeacherBabyBedPagesEarsLaysGradesCountingBoy And GirlEighth Grade Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.” ThinkingWellsStillsReasonTeacherFineGoes OnPagesCriticismLockedPlatoLocked Up Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“Adam Roberts is an original: smart, funny, talented, endlessly inquisitive, an A student and, happily for us, an A+ teacher. Everyone from beginner cooks to sure hands will learn something new on each page. And even if, like Adam's mom's, your stove stores shoes and handbags, you'll still be charmed by Secrets-it's a great read.” IfsStillsHandsSecretTeacherStudentsMomPagesSmartOriginalsShoesStoresCooksSomething NewAdamBeginnersStovesCharmedInquisitiveHandbags Author:Dorie Greenspan
“I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.” WritingYearsMindBelieveTwoEndsMatterDoneChanceNovelTeacherPagesArgumentNo Matter WhatPreparedPaceFavourMarathonDays OffSprintStanfordPace Yourself Author:Scott Turow
“I have known I wanted to be a writer since I was seven-years-old. Seriously. In the second grade I wrote a 21-page story and handed it in to my teacher. She told my mother I was going to be a writer. Since then, I always kept a journal and wrote poetry, plays, stories.” YearsPlayStoriesWantedMotherKnownTeacherPagesSevenGradesJournalSeven Years Author:Renee Watson
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.” ShouldWritingDifferentStoriesReadingTeacherCreationShapesPagesSentencesFinest Author:Annie Proulx
“We have about three hours of homework a night, and our evening study period is only two hours, so if you want to spend the break at half-past-nine not freaking out, you have to cram. I'm not sure that the picture of the wide-eyed zombie girl biting out the brains of senior douchebag James Page is part of Sam's homework, bit if it is, his physics teacher is awesome.” IfsWantTwoPastNightGirlThreeBitsHoursBrainHalfBreakStudyTeacherPeriodsPagesWidePhysicsNineEveningNot SureSeniorZombieHomeworkBitingFreaking OutDouchebags Book:White Cat Source: White Cat
“Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.” WayEndsHateOpportunityGreaterTeacherOur LivesFashionAmountTenWastePagesDeserveTalesFairyFairy TaleEpisodesVolumeCrashDon't Waste Your Time Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes