Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work because ..." The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Teaching, Reading

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.86, Macmillan

• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Education, Teacher, Women

  Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose "The Nature and Aims of Fiction" (1969)

• Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Teacher, Teaching, Childhood

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

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