Lessons from My Teachers Quotes

“Don’t exclude people even if you don’t like them.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

“Montessori wrote: “The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

“You can mess things up quickly, but cleaning up a mess takes a long time. Still, it’s okay to make a mess.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

“Don’t break what you’re working on.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

“If I had to choose between all the lessons she has taught me and hold one holy, it is this—to live in the moment.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

“Had my mother given up her ambitions to raise me and my sister?”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

“a teaching that is truly absorbed is composed not of words only but also of the example of the person doing the teaching.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present

“head. That I’ve absorbed guidance from all kinds of real people and places seems an obvious thing to say, and yet, one irony of our digital era, in which we desperately try to learn from YouTube, is that our phones can give us facts but not story; information, but not relation.”
― Sarah Ruhl, Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present