Quotes by Esme Raji Codell

Esme Raji Codell

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

Library

Platforms

Space

But certain people just think it’s their job to freak out. As long as they’re freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren’t doing work.

Children

Jobs

Moving

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

Form

Imagination

Mad

If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil’s advocate, and so on. It doesn’t occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.

Ideas

Play

Thinking

So much of teaching is sharing. Learning results in sharing, sharing results in change, change is learning. The only other job with so much sharing is parenting. That’s probably why the two are so often confused. You can’t test what sort of teacher someone will be, because testing what someone knows isn’t the same as what someone is able to share.

Confused

Jobs

Teacher

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

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Ideas

Trying

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Quotes by Esme Raji Codell

Esme Raji Codell

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!

But certain people just think it’s their job to freak out. As long as they’re freaking out, they feel busy, like they must be doing work. Getting upset is force, but no motion. Unless we are moving the children forward, we aren’t doing work.

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil’s advocate, and so on. It doesn’t occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

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