Daily quote by Teachers

• What strikes me most when I remember Paula's teaching is her presence as much as the content of her teachings. I think in this country we have an obsession with content and curriculum, all the while devaluing presence and proximity, which are teaching values hard to describe or quantify (or, indeed, teach). Paula has a tremendous gaze, a tremendous listening power, and the most intelligent curiosity of anyone I have ever met. She took me seriously.
• Teaching is unbounded by the classroom. Just as love is unbounded by time.
  • Sarah Ruhl, "Is playwriting teachable?: the example of Paula Vogel," 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write