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In Montana, a math teacher is running for the Senate. Win or lose, she plans on demanding a recount because math is fun.
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
The little child learns to speak, though it has no learned teachers - because it lives with those who know how to speak.
My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.
The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.
That's what teaching is, the art of explanation: presenting the right information in the right order in a memorable way.
I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.
When I was 23, basically I stopped modelling and started going to school, and was able to study with wonderful teachers.
…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)
It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.
I was the kid who'd get up in class and tell the teacher, 'But we were supposed to have a test today! I studied for it!'
Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.
An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.
I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.
Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
Don't try to become a teacher overnight with psychological bookkeeping in your heart and educational theory in your head.
You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me.
I want to be a science teacher. My friends asked me why, but I'm intrigued by it and I'm quite good at science at school.
I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.
I've always felt that Balanchine is my ultimate teacher. I learn the most from observing his work and also dancing in it.
If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
Can't India dream of exporting teachers of high calibre? Can't we instil the desire in children to become great teachers?
There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning?
It's the best gift any teacher could possibly get, to go back to where you came from and offer knowledge and camaraderie.
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that open to us.
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.
I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.
I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"
It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.
My brother is a policeman; my sister's an English teacher. When I hear what they make versus what I make, it's ridiculous.
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.