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I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.
– Pat Conroy

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  1. I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language. – Pat Conroy
  2. The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good ones are. – Pat Conroy
  3. In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. – Charles ens
  4. A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America. – Pat Conroy
  5. I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid. – Pat Conroy
  6. But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That’s why they become politicians. – Anthony Horowitz
  7. Before her parents were killed, Lena hadn’t minded school. She had even liked some of her classes. Now school was just watching the clock tick. – Aaron Michael Ritchey
  8. Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else. – Pat Conroy
  9. Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught. – Matthew Donnelly
  10. Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God’s boss. – Deborah Wiles
  11. Teachers are mind engineers! Teachers are life directors! Don’t ever undermine a teacher! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  12. Our parents would not be -˜The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  13. You are a change maker and nothing should clean this notice off the boards of your heart! – Israelmore Ayivor
  14. ..English teachers often take a right-wrong stance. I’d rather my students take a thinking stance. – Jeff Anderson
  15. You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little ????ed up. – Pat Conroy
  16. A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. – Pat Conroy
  17. Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your life. – Pat Conroy
  18. I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. – Pat Conroy
  19. I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well. – Pat Conroy
  20. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. – Pat Conroy
  21. Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. – Pat Conroy
  22. The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it. – Pat Conroy
  23. He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart. – Pat Conroy
  24. When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children – Pat Conroy
  25. I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not draw attention to themselves. – Pat Conroy
  26. You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It’s a vicious cycle. – Pat Conroy
  27. Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing. – Pat Conroy
  28. There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. – Pat Conroy
  29. Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years. – Pat Conroy
  30. Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all. – Pat Conroy
  31. Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers. – Pat Conroy
  32. Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood. – Pat Conroy
  33. The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man. – Pat Conroy
  34. It would always be my burden, not that I lacked genius, but that I was fully aware of it. – Pat Conroy
  35. The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism. – Pat Conroy
  36. I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told. – Pat Conroy
  37. She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself. – Pat Conroy
  38. You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world. – Pat Conroy
  39. Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law. – Pat Conroy
  40. The body’s a funny thing. It’s so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly. – Pat Conroy

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