My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In the depth of the near depression, that he faced when he came in, Barack Obama and Democratic leaders in Congress provided 'recovery funds' that literally kept our classrooms open. Two years ago, these funds saved nearly 20,000 teacher and education jobs - just here in North Carolina. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>