Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing

The Language Teacher

• Part of teaching a language is educating your students' guesses, taming them.
• Grammar and memory come from playing with words, rubbing them on the fingers and on the tongue, experiencing the various meaning they give off. Textbooks are no substitute.

You Are What You Say

• Words, regardless of their pedigree, make only as much sense as we choose to give them. We are the teachers, not they. To possess fluency, or verbal intelligence, is to animate words with our imagination.
• Every bird is a word we teach to sing.