Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea.

I am not simply teaching the reading; I am teaching the reader.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.

To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

I am not simply teaching the reading I am teaching the reader.

What do we mean when we say our school 'values' reading?

Out of the Mess comes a Message that makes you Sage

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

He who has wealth has friends and relations; he alone survives and is respected as a man.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

Nonviolent Communication shows us a way of being very honest, but without any criticism, without any insults, without any put-downs, without any intellectual diagnosis implying wrongness.

They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.