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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
Jonathan Kozol
Book
Writing
School
Job
First
Reading
White
Would
Tried
About
Write
Ads
First Grade
Read
Learned
Were
Grade
Taught
Children
Want
Anyone
Happen
Suburban
Who
Applications
Imagine
My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.
Jonathan Krohn
Me
Speak
Mother
Everything
Posture
Properly
Know
How
Taught
Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know.
Jonathan Miller
Me
You
People
Doctor
Behavior
Same Thing
Says
Exactly
About
Directing
Point
Like
Know
Audience
Doing
Lot
Yes
Same
Taught
Being
Where
Manifold
Thing
I've taught the better class of tourist both to see and not to see; to lift their eyes above and beyond the inessentials, and thrill to our western Nature in her majesty.
Jonathan Raban
Nature
Class
Eyes
Better
Our
See
Above
Thrill
Both
Lift
Tourist
Majesty
Beyond
Western
Taught
Her
Whenever anyone says I've taught them things by me being myself, I'm always like, 'Really? I just thought that was like, Wednesday for me. I was just wearing a kilt and a sleeveless top in a Rotary Club, it wasn't that big of a deal.'
Jonathan Van Ness
Myself
Me
Being Myself
Thought
Big
Club
Top
Says
Wearing
Wednesday
Like
Deal
Always
Just
Taught
Whenever
Being
Anyone
Them
Really
Rotary
Things
I went from being pretty fit to 230 lbs., which isn't, like, the biggest for being 6-feet-tall, but I had been 165 lbs. just three months prior. That taught me a lot about how people treat you differently when you're fit and when you're bigger.
Jonathan Van Ness
Me
You
People
Treat
Three
Months
Pretty
About
Had
Like
Prior
How
Been
Lot
Fit
Just
Taught
Being
Bigger
Biggest
Which
Being Pretty
Differently
My parents taught us to live within our means. It's time to force Washington to do the same.
Joni Ernst
Time
Parents
Live
Our
Force
Within
Same
Taught
Us
Means
Washington
Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives.
Josefina Vazquez Mota
Daily
Girl
Valuing
Taught
Dependent
Little
Little Girls
Themselves
Incapable
Aspects
Many
Lives
Daily Lives
One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.
Joseph Bruchac
Time
Patience
Waiting
One Of The Things
Importance
Been
American
Taught
Native
Native American
Elders
Right
Things
My parents taught me good standards, and I feel like I'm taking it to the boxing realm.
Joseph Parker
Good
Me
Parents
Taking
Feel
Like
Boxing
Taught
Realm
Standards
We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
Joseph de Maistre
Good
Evil
Sense
Nothing
Everything
Philosophy
Proper
Tainted
Since
Real
Very
Modern
Real Sense
Taught
Whereas
Polluted
Place
Which
Us
Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.
Joyce Carol Oates
You
Class
Experience
Detail
Responsive
Until
Knows
Text
Intelligent
Taught
Anyone
Loving
Really
Teaches
Who
I'm the way my father taught me to be.
Juan Mata
Me
Father
Way
Taught
My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' series, books filled with wizards and witches. And you know what those subversive tales taught us? That we loved to read!
Judy Blume
You
Reminisce
Husband
Books
Frank
Those
About
Through
Like
Tales
Know
Witches
Read
How
Wizards
Were
Taught
Oz
Loved
Subversive
Straight
Us
Series
Filled
I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.
Judy Collins
Politics
Me
Speak
World
Way
Out
Would
About
Around
American
Taught
Whether
Public
American Way
Raised
Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.
Judy Gold
You
Women
Yourself
Polite
Opinions
Women Are
Taught
Lady
Want
Your
Keep
John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play third base and how to protect myself. John taught me more baseball than anyone else.
Judy Johnson
Myself
Me
Man
Gave
Else
John
More
He
Protect
Polishing
How
Than
Taught
Anyone
Anyone Else
Skills
Base
Baseball
Henry
Play
Credit
Third
I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.
Jules Shear
Myself
About
How
Lefty
Taught
Play
Julia Roberts taught me how to knit on the set of 'Mona Lisa Smile.'
Julia Stiles
Smile
Me
Knit
Roberts
How
Julia
Julia Roberts
Taught
Mona
Set
I don't feel proprietorial about the problems of philosophy. History has taught us that many philosophical issues can grow up, leave home and live elsewhere.
Julian Baggini
Home
History
Problems
Live
Elsewhere
Philosophical
Philosophy
About
Feel
Leave
Issues
Up
Taught
Us
Many
Grow
Grow Up
The No. 1 rule you're taught as a receiver: You've just got to watch the ball. You hear about the guy who was lucky. But the guy who was lucky got an opportunity, and he was prepared for it. Sometimes the ball falls your way, and, you know, we'll take it.
Julian Edelman
You
Sometimes
Opportunity
Rule
Way
About
Guy
Take
He
Know
Ball
Got
Hear
Falls
Just
Taught
Your
Who
Lucky
Prepared
Watch
Receiver
When I was in journalism school, you were taught to be completely objective. But we don't see that anymore.
Julie Chen
You
School
See
Objective
Journalism
Were
Taught
Anymore
My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.
June Jordan
Me
Fight
Father
Big
Fighting
Gave
Tell
Would
Both
He
Fair
Learn
How
Person
Uneven
Taught
Reason
Who
Basics
I've been taught through life experience that, like, I'd better open my mouth and quickly define myself in a new space and with new people because, if I don't, I will be defined.
Justin Simien
Life
Myself
Experience
People
Better
Space
Will
Mouth
Define
Defined
Life Experience
Through
Open
New
Like
Because
Been
New People
Quickly
Taught
That first CS class I took, I felt like I was drowning. It's like being taught how to swim by being thrown off deck. The continual self-talk that I have had with myself while I've been here is, pull yourself together and get this done.
Justine Bateman
Myself
Class
Together
Yourself
First
Took
Thrown
Had
Drowning
Like
Felt
How
Been
Off
Get
Done
Taught
Being
While
Deck
Swim
Here
Pull
My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
K. Flay
Family
Me
Beatles
Culture
Guitar
Value
Reading
Enough
Some
Beatles Songs
Songs
He
Part
Primarily
Does
Still
Accomplished
Taught
Literacy
Loved
Whole
Dad
Play
Played
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