Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?
From Frank McCourt
I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome.
One day a week should be set aside for field trips.
Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.
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