Matthew Wagoner

“No one likes to be condescended to, so it’s hardly surprising that so many high school students develop a loathing for the modernist novels they’re forced to read in senior English and go to the movies instead. (Movies have plots, after all.) They’re being good postmodernists.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

“This book is about cultivating habits that let you become organized enough to get results for your students and to make your life more fun and less stressful.”
― Maia Heyck-Merlin, The Together Teacher: Plan Ahead, Get Organized, and Save Time!

“When they stopped believing and trusting God, they became afraid and ashamed. Cut off from God, they lost their way. Apart from God, it was hard to be sure of who they were, if they were safe, and what they were to be doing outside the garden. Since then every human being is born into a life in which these three questions consume our energies and attention: “Who am I?” “Will I be OK?” and “What am I to be about in life?”
― Donovan Graham, Making a Difference: Christian Educators on Public Schools

“He tried his luck again, and things went so smoothly that with no more noise or disturbance than the last time, he found himself rid of the burden that had caused him so much grief. But since Don Quixote had a sense of smell as acute as his hearing, and Sancho was joined so closely to him, and the vapors rose up almost in a straight line, some unavoidably reached his nostrils, and as soon as they did he came to the assistance of his nostrils and squeezed them closed between two fingers, and in a somewhat nasal voice, he said: “It seems to me, Sancho, that you are very frightened.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote