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.

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

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

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

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?

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.

I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.