Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.
Tracy KidderThe goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.
Tracy KidderWhat interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives
Tracy KidderIf you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen
Tracy Kidder