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So this is the space during tutoring hours. It’s very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students’ work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach’.
I’m an amateur science enthusiast. I’m not even a professional enthusiast. I don’t know anything I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.
I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if they’re smart people. But you don’t throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff.
I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there’s just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.
But you know, there’s something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention – they go home, they’re finished. They don’t stall, they don’t do their homework in front of the TV.
I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I’d like to see them again. And I’d love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.
I’ve never had WiFi at home. I’m too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.
And that’s actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we’re able to work with thousands and thousands more students.