Susan Ohanian Quotes

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While the wheels of all bureaucracies turn slowly, in school bureaucracies many of those wheels have flat tires.

Susan Ohanian

The opposite of anxiety is not happiness. The opposite of anxiety is death.

Susan Ohanian

All teachers need to have the courage of their contradictions.

Susan Ohanian

School is the marketplace of possibility, not efficiency.

Susan Ohanian

When television is bad, nothing is worse. When television is good, it's not much better. Why do you think it's called a medium?

Susan Ohanian

The first rule of education is that if somebody will fund it, somebody will do it. The second rule of education is that once something is funded, workbooks will follow.

Susan Ohanian

The disposition for teaching is two percent inborn and ninety-eight percent reinvented every day of one's career.

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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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Trusting children and books is a revolutionary act. Books are, after all, dangerous stuff. Leave a child alone with a book and you don't know what might happen.

Susan Ohanian

What they didn't tell you in your college preparatory courses is that a teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.

Susan Ohanian