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His laugh is distinctly Russian, more of a sly chuckle than a raucous guffaw, raucous guffaws having been outlawed during Soviet times.
The first lesson in making music, it turns out, is making silence—the blank canvas, the empty room, the white page. A void that must be made before it can be filled.
“When students are working,” he writes of the typical millennial classroom experience, “what they’re working on is their own ability to work.”
reshape itself in your mind, until you see it as something less like a trophy or a prize and more like a long, circuitous road in which the intended destination disappears upon arrival.
You like teaching college students specifically because college was the time in your life when you most needed help, but were least able to ask for it.
