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Teach the writer, not the writing.

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Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

Lucy Calkins Author

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

Lucy Calkins Author

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

Lucy Calkins Author

When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?

Lucy Calkins Author

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Confucius Philosopher

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil Philosopher

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

Adam Hamilton Pastor

I try to teach my kids to be open.

Antonio Banderas Film Actor

There's only so much you can teach a person until you reach the limits of his capabilities.

Arnold Rothstein Businessman

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

Barack Obama 44th U.S. President

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