LouAnne Johnson Quotes

• 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

  49 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• Knowledge counts but common sense matters.

  LouAnne Johnson

  Common Sense, Matter, Common

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

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin