The Call of Service Quotes

“Where you read a book and when you read and with whom (as your fellow readers) can make a big difference!”
― Robert Coles, The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism

“Sometimes we try to get our students into an analytic frame of mind, and we onder why they get bored after awhile! I've had a great reaction from some of the kids when I do a summary of a story, and then ask the kids if that story gets any bells going in their heads — gets them thinking about their own lives. that's when they start paying attention, and that's when they'll speak up.”
― Robert Coles, The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism

“She like history . . . and wished the English teacher would ask the class to read history books. Instead the teacher was 'always' assigning poems.”
― Robert Coles, The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism

“To these kids, dates mean very little. They live in the present, and they don't have dates for the present. there is just sunrise and sunset and then another sunrise, and the vents that take place during the day or night.”
― Robert Coles, The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism