Well, my background is journalism. I dont have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college. – Dave Eggers
You treat a kid with respect and as an adult you talk to them as if theyre smart people. But you dont throw at them the trappings of adulthood and you know, the darker stuff. – Dave Eggers
And thats actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then were able to work with thousands and thousands more students. – Dave Eggers
So this is the space during tutoring hours. Its very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. – Dave Eggers