{"author":"Frank McCourt","author_id":"Frank+McCourt","total_quotes":45,"quotes":[{"text":"We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["school","high school","you "],"id":3419,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["mother","vacation","lonely "],"id":12232,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["experience","think "],"id":16603,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["glow","just","hard "],"id":19389,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["knowledge","great","remember "],"id":27032,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"Teaching is bringing the news.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["teaching"],"id":34879,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["education","school","me "],"id":62491,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["kids","sun","teacher"],"id":80117,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"Everything in my head was secondhand, too: Catholicism; Ireland's sad history, a litany of suffering and martyrdom drummed into me by priests, schoolmasters and parents who knew no better.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["catholic","teaching"],"id":99672,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"},{"text":"That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.","author":"Frank McCourt","tags":["absurdity","going","sense "],"id":124638,"author_id":"Frank+McCourt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}