To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their ...
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, thi...
Math. It’s your favorite subject. Which surprises you. Last year your teacher tried to convince you that you had a real “aptitude” for math, but all you got in the end was a B minus. The truth is you weren’t even trying. But then you got low ...
Margaret Campbell: You're an honor student. If you transfer to Mrs. Gruwell's class, think how that'll reflect on your records. Victoria: It doesn't matter to me, my grades will still be the same. Look, Ms. Campbell, when I first transferred to this ...
I'm starting to feel like a character from one of these books
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom
A Great Teacher is like a fountain; she draws from the still, deep waters of personal growth and professional knowledge to serve others from her abundant overflow.
Farid asked, 'Do American teachers care about every student?' I thought about a humanities teacher I’d worked with in Korea and more recently a science teacher I’d worked with in Germany. I said, 'I think most schools have a resident idiot.
She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time. (p. 24)
The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm su...
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.
...fine love poetry tends to be written when the object of one's affection is at a safe distance; also, it often reflects a love of words more than a love of women...
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
