Tom Rademacher > Quotes

“Teaching is like trying to shove a couch that is too wide through a door. No amount of pushing harder is going to help until you figure out that you need to flip the damn thing on its side.”
― Tom Rademacher, It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching

“Antiracist teaching is a process. It is a process without end, without a graduation and a certification as officially antiracist, which is all the better reason to work with urgency.”
― Tom Rademacher, It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching

“Teaching requires that you work at being a person and work at understanding people and the world, and work at feelings and connecting and respect in ways and to a magnitude that is not often asked of adults who aren't bartenders.”
― Tom Rademacher, It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching

“I did everything I could to make them, if not love Othello, at least understand why some people would. (This is also called teaching.)”
― Tom Rademacher, It Won't Be Easy: An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching