Meg

“The goal is to get to the place where we can think, I am aware of what’s happening, the part I play, and how I can make it better, and that doesn’t mean I have to deny the joy in my life.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

“Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness. They are able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves, their subjects, and their students so that students can learn to weave a world for themselves.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“Death without End Nothing can stand in the way of glory, solitary and solar,
the virtues of a man or a people reduced, primarily by analysis,
to no more than a hollow vessel...but the shame that remains,
after a life of betrayal, or even a single act of betrayal,
is more certain and less likely to be injurious than glory... A people that is remembered only by periods of glory or men
of virtue, will always be in doubt about itself, reduced to being
an empty vessel. The crimes of which it is ashamed are what
make its true history, and for a man it is the same. JEAN GENET (Letters to Roger Blin on The Screens)”
― Assia Djebar, Algerian White

“Ten books or twenty books are not enough to instill a love of reading in students. They must choose and read many books for themselves in order to catch the reading bug. By setting the requirement as high as I do, I ensure that students must have a book going constantly. Without the need to read a book every single day to stay on top of my requirement, students would read as little as they could. They might not internalize independent reading habits if my requirement expected less from them.”
― Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child