Pat Conroy

Quotes

• “The Southern school superintendent is a kind of remote deity who breathes the purer air of Mount Parnassus. The teachers see him only on those august occasions when they need to be reminded of the nobility of their calling. The powers of a superintendent are considerable. He hires and fires, manipulates the board of education, handles a staggering amount of money, and maintains the precarious existence of the status quo.”
• “Lightning flashed around the island; thunder played its favorite game of scaring the crap out of all the shivering mortals on the earth below.”
• “Christ must do a lot of puking when he reflects upon the good works done in his name.”
• “And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.”
• “I learned that politicians are not supposed to help people. They simply listen to people, nod their heads painfully, commiserate at proper intervals, promise to do all they can, and then do nothing. It was very instructive. I could probably have enlisted more action from a bleached jellyfish washed ashore in a seasonal storm.”
• “Teaching is a record of failures. But the glory of teaching is in the attempt.”

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