Rick Riordan Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• I'm a teacher still, but with a much larger classroom.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Attitude, Teaching

• Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Crazy, Teaching

• I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

  Rick Riordan

  Teaching, Writing, Long

  "Cover reveal: Rick Riordan's heroes meet in 'The Son of Sobek'". Interview with Lindsay Deutsch, www.usatoday.com. May 7, 2013.

• I love teaching. I love working with kids... maybe some day I'll go back to the classroom. I'm not ready to say it'll never happen.

  Rick Riordan

  Teaching, Kids, Classroom

• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Teaching

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