Sensei Quotes

“Even in the washed out light of that place, the tears in Micky’s eyes glittered like the last sparks of a dying star.”
― John Donohue, Sensei

“People crave certainty. And control. We spend our lives erecting coping mechanisms, little games we play to preserve the illusion of safety.”
― John Donohue, Sensei

“For our part, we labor on in the blind hope that we will somehow be plucked from anonymity and elevated to full-time status, where you work about nine months out of the year. So”
― John Donohue, Sensei

“Of course, it’s not that I really work there. Dorian, like many other colleges, pays a horde of part-time teachers to do the dirty work of modern education. As an adjunct instructor I labor in obscurity so that the full-time professors can think deeply in a measured, quiet, unpressured life that, in my more bitter moments, I think must be like the early onset of Alzheimer’s. A part-time college instructor typically makes about an eighth of the pay of a real professor, with no benefits, medical coverage, or job security. Everyone loves us because we’re cheap, docile, and actually teach for a living.”
― John Donohue, Sensei