Top 15 Esme Raji Codell Quotes

#1. If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.

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#2. I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

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#3. ...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.'
'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia.

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#4. You're saying she doesn't do her work? So take care of your business! Fail her like a normal kid. The failure will be between me and my daughter, then. You won't like it if her failure is between me and you.

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#5. And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.

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#6. Oh, thank you, Darrell Sikes, for being wild and nasty and rude and getting me out of The Program and making me Normal Dumb, not Special Dumb. I owe you one, Darrell Sikes.

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#7. It's not our job to be liked(teachers)", I reminded her. "Its our job to help them be smart(students)". Secretly, I thought, who gives a rat's ass if they like us? Sometimes I can hardly stand them!

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#8. But certain people just think it's their job to freak out. As long as they're freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren't doing work.

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#9. I tend not to share things unnecessarily with those I despise.

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#10. A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

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#11. The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

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#12. Why do these dumb fucks keep guns around the house? They make the world as ruinous as they imagine it is.

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#13. Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished

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#14. Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.

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#15. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

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