Taylor Mali Quotes

• That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.

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  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.21, Penguin

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• I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply question authority—you've got to speak with it too.

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  Determination, Believe, Challenges

  Taylor Mali, “Totally like whatever, you know?”

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• By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Real

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• I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.

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  Honesty, Kicking, Ass

  "'Teachers Make' A Difference, What About You?". "All Things Considered " with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 6, 2012.

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• Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

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  Teacher, Parent, Able

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.17, Penguin

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• Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

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  Teacher, Mistake, Thinking

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.42, Penguin

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• Read to your children all of the time
  Novels and nursery rhymes
  Autobiographies, even the newspaper
  It doesn't mater; it's quality time
  Because once upon a time
  We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told
  We need words to hold us and the world to behold us
  For us to truly know our souls

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  Children, Voice, Nurse

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• Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

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  Lessons, Kind, Persons

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.23, Penguin

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• You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I can make a C+ feel like a Congressional Medal of Honor, and I can make a...

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  Hard Work, Kids, Honor

  "'Teachers Make' A Difference, What About You?". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 6, 2012.

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• The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.

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  Teacher, Best Teacher, Disappoint

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• Education is the miracle; I'm just the worker.

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  Miracle, Workers

  Taylor Mali (2013). “The Last Time As We Are”, p.36, SCB Distributors

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• Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?

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  Teacher, Differences, Making A Difference

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.7, Penguin

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• The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Understanding

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.76, Penguin

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• Simply put, the best teachers are the ones you work your tail off for because in the end you just don't want them to think any less of you. You want and need their approval.

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  Teacher, Thinking, Needs

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.14, Penguin

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• Say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it.

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  Determination, Believe

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.39, Penguin

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• It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

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  Advice, Speak, Enough

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.39, Penguin

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• Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned

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  Lessons To Be Learned, Lessons, Teach

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.34, Penguin

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• Falling in love is like owning a dog.

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  Dog, Falling In Love, Love Is

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• A poem is the perfect place to celebrate imperfection and exult in the ways you fall short of being the person you want to be.

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  Fall, Perfect, Want

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• Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their profession is, but frankly, they have real work to do and a lot of it, so they don't have a whole lot of free time on their hands.

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  Teacher, Jobs, Real

  Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.76, Penguin

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