Taylor Mali > Quotes

“Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.

Throw things away and love will bring them back,
again, and again, and again.
But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.
And in return, love loves you and never stops.”
― Taylor Mali

“We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!”
― Taylor Mali

“Because once upon a time, we grew up on stories and the voices in which they were told. We need words to hold us and the world to behold us for us to truly know our own souls.”
― Taylor Mali

“You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.”
― Taylor Mali

“Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.”
― Taylor Mali

“Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room”
― Taylor Mali

“Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.”
― Taylor Mali

“Read to your children all of the time
Novels and nursery rhymes
Autobiographies, even the newspaper
It doesn't mater; it's quality time
Because once upon a time
We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told
We need words to hold us and the world to behold us
For us to truly know our souls”
― Taylor Mali

“The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.”
― Taylor Mali

“Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands.”
― Taylor Mali

“How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees...”
― Taylor Mali

“Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.”
― Taylor Mali

“That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.”
― Taylor Mali

“Here, let me break it down for you,
so you know what I say is true:
Teachers? Teachers make a difference!
Now what about you?”
― Taylor Mali

“And I want to tell her… [that] changing your mind is one of the best ways of finding out whether or not you still have one.”
― Taylor Mali, What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

“By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.”
― Taylor Mali

“There is no better outcome of one’s education, which the American philosopher William Durant called “a progressive discovery of our ignorance.”
― Taylor Mali, What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

“Suzy smiled and the whole class laughed at me, but when she spoke, I heard a new sound, not the song of an angel, but the words of a woman on a pedestal, coming down.”
― Taylor Mali

“Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.”
― Taylor Mali, What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

“A mother or father might be too preoccupied with how one child compares with another to be able to fully appreciate the uniqueness of the individual child.”
― Taylor Mali

“The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.”
― Taylor Mali