We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!
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 si...
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely f...
Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.
The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
You see, I have a policy about honesty and ass-kicking, which is, if you ask for it, then I have to let you have it.
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead a graduation can be a day on which we turn...
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Jos...
Falling In Love Is Like Owning A Dog.Throw things away and love will bring them back,again, and again, and again.But most of all, love needs love, lots of it.And in return, love loves you and never st...
