Theodore Roethke Quotes About Teaching
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Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.
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The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.
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A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
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O Lord, may I never want to look good. O Jesus, may I always read it all: out loud and the very way it should be. May I never look at the other findings until I have come to my own true conclusions: May I care for the least of the young: and become aware of the one poem that each may have written; may I be aware of what each thing is, delighted with form, and wary of the false comparison; may I never use the word "brilliant."
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What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
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