How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. The class met on Tuesdays. It began after breakfast. The subject was The Meaning of Life. It was taught from experience. (1.1)
First sentence in the whole book, and boom: This whole story is going to be about learning. It's even given a classroom-like setting.
Quote #2
No one there knew he was a prominent doctor of sociology, with years of experience as a college professor and several well-respected books. They just thought he was some old nut. (2.3)
Morrie is a professor by, well, profession, but he doesn't act like it. When he goes dancing at the local disco every week he proves that teachers don't have to be people that sit behind a desk grading papers their whole lives; he's out there experiencing life just like his students.
Quote #3
Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. (2.41)
Talk about making life a learning experience. In fact, Morrie is going to make death a learning experience. But he's not going to do it just for his own research purposes—nope, he has hopes that he can help others learn about the meaning of death through being "a human textbook."