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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.
Clearly the work of a master teacher who has deep knowledge of his subject and enormous empathy for his students and his readers.
I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.
Thank you for answering the call to be teachers. Thank you for the enduring impression you've made in the lives you have touched.
No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests
Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.
The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.
My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.
No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell
I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.
[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.
No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.
Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.
I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.
In life, always choose a serious rival even if you know you have no chance to win, because a good rival is always a good teacher!
Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.
Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.
I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.
My best teachers were not the ones who knew all the answers, but those who were deeply excited by questions they couldn't answer.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.
When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.
My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history.
No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others.
The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.
With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.
I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids' classrooms.
My life is just like Breaking Bad except instead of a chemistry teacher I'm just a guy and instead of making meth I don't do much.
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.
The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.
In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.
I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.
People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."