Here, let me break it down for you, so you know what I say is true: Teachers? Teachers make a difference! Now what about you?
Interpretation
Teachers have a significant impact on students and society.
In this quote, Taylor Mali emphasizes the critical role that teachers play in shaping the lives and futures of their students. He calls attention to the profound influence educators have, urging the audience to recognize the importance of teaching and to consider their own role in this impactful profession.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of education at a local community meeting.
I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner that bespeaks the determination with which you believe it. Because contrary to the wisdom of the bumper sticker, it is not enough these days to simply question authority—you've got to speak with it too.
I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
Read to your children all of the time_x000D_ Novels and nursery rhymes_x000D_ Autobiographies, even the newspaper_x000D_ It doesn't mater; it's quality time_x000D_ Because once upon a time _x000D_ We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told _x000D_ We need words to hold us and the world to behold us _x000D_ For us to truly know our souls
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.'
As children growing up here in the East Bay, we were raised by a community with a deep belief in the promise of our country - and, a deep understanding of the parts of that promise that still remain unfulfilled.
Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster
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