Dave Eggers Quotes

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher. - Dave Eggers

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time. - Dave Eggers

Who's got the Paris Review? ... It's under a new editor. - Dave Eggers

What can I do for you, my man? - Dave Eggers

Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. - Dave Eggers

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago. - Dave Eggers

The kids sit facing the white board and collectively tell a story, ... As they're coming up with the story, there's a typist sitting here, so they see their words coming up on the wall. - Dave Eggers

The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before. - Dave Eggers

The house is a factory. - Dave Eggers

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