Quotes About Literature And Teaching

#1. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Pat Conroy

#2. The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I've had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.

Pat Conroy

#3. Literature could turn you into an asshole: he'd learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.

Chad Harbach

#4. Ahhh, teaching literature. A noble calling! For we are all stories.

Carolyn Weber

#5. The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich.

James Loeb

#6. I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

Pat Conroy

#7. Teaching others, he corrected himself.

Dejan Stojanovic

#8. As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

Northrop Frye

#10. The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're decoding

Maureen Corrigan

#11. I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Jim Harrison

#12. That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn't match reality.

Stefanos Livos

#13. My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. By definition, the big difference between mercy and justice is that mercy is never ever obligatory.

R.C. Sproul

#15. The passion to teach, to share deeply
experienced "lessons from life," is embedded in all literature.

Vera B. Williams

#16. I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. [Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy ... They lack an anchor for their real self.

Billy Graham

#18. Now that it was finally here, she wasn't surprised to find herself still reluctant to start it. Reluctant to end the part of her life when this conversation hadn't happened yet. Reluctant to find out what her life would look like after it.

Chris Pavone

#19. They didn't teach Nietzsche in the philosophy department at Harvard; philosophy there was strictly analytical stuff and the poetic ramblings of Nietzsche did not belong. And see - you are teaching it in a literature class - so they must have been right.

Dean Wareham

#20. You can't teach a hunter it's wrong to kill.

Baba Hari Dass

#21. My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Azar Nafisi

#22. I work from the body - I try to develop a language of the body. I've invented a term I call "corporeal writing" around that idea. I love teaching and collaborating around this idea, because no new breakthrough in literature ever happened because everyone was doing what was already there.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#23. You'd think the homeless would despise the rest of us, but it seems the thing they want to do most is talk. If only they could sit us down and let it all spill out - every twist of their history, down to the last murmur - then they'd be cured.

Alexander Masters

#24. When it comes to leading people, there is no problem that is unique to you.

David Cottrell

#25. Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost

Albert Jay Nock

#26. We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher
we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.

Phillip M. Hoose

#27. The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Dejan Stojanovic

#28. Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing.

Tobias Wolff