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When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

LouAnne Johnson
Teacher, Class, Miracle
LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.8, Macmillan

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.

LouAnne Johnson
Heart, Forever, May
LouAnne Johnson (2015). “Teaching Outside the Box: How to Grab Your Students By Their Brains”, p.48, John Wiley & Sons

Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

LouAnne Johnson
Common Sense, Matter, Common
LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.103, Macmillan

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult to yourself, to other writers, and to your readers.

LouAnne Johnson
Writing, Rejection, Risk

There are two kinds of books in the world--the boring kind they make you read in school and the interesting kind that they won't let you read in school because then they would have to talk about real stuff like sex and divorce and is there a God and if there isn't then what happens when you die, and how come the history books have so many lies in them.

LouAnne Johnson
Sex, Real, Lying
Louanne Johnson (2009). “Muchacho: A Novel”, p.79, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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