"Prepare for some advice. Are you ready? Because it's pretty cerebral. Nobody likes a smart ass."
"Are you talking about me and Dreisbach?"
"He deserves your respect. He's your teacher."
"He's a loser."
"When Paul Dreisbach was young, he played saxophone in a jazz band, and he was really good. Turned down a scholarship at Juilliard because music was only his second love. His first love was history. In fact, it was his passion."
"That's a little weird."
"Paul Dreisbach became a teacher because he wanted to share that passion with others."
"Can you please stop using Dreisbach and passion in the same sentence? It's giving me a... bad picture."
"If you make snap judgments about people and are unwilling to look into their past, you'll never begin to understand them."
"He's a dweeb."
"He's your teacher."
"I don't like him."
"You don't have to like him. Let him teach you."
"Do you know what innocence is?... it's more than an absence of guilt. It's having faith that there's goodness in the face of cruelty and pain." JOA 219
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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how strange it is to me that the bond between teacher and student is a human one... i forget that sometimes
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