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Teaching is listening, learning is talking

Deborah Meier / Education Reform Leader
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Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.

Deborah Meier Education Reform Leader

Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

Deborah Meier Education Reform Leader

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Deborah Meier Education Reform Leader

If you ask me, taking on risk and being more daring is a real important part of creativity.

Deborah Meier Education Reform Leader

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

Tom Araya Musician

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Marcel Achard Playwright

In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.

Adam Reed Actor

Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.

Aleister Crowley Poet

I think chemistry is about not acting, but reacting, and not talking, but listening.

Amy Poehler Actress

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Andre Gide Author

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