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To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.
When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.
Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.
A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.
I think I am a tough grader, because I feel like it's my job to teach them to write well. I hope my students say I'm a fair teacher.
A teacher in search of his/her own freedom may be the only kind of teacher who can arouse young persons to go in search of their own
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.
Some birdies were about a family with hardships. Other days, birdie was a selfless teacher. And birdie from before is my first love.
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
I was taught from a young age that as a teacher, especially a male, you are to never be alone with a female, or even a male student.
Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.
What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.
And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.
I believe the doctor of the future will be a teacher as well as a physician. His real job will be to teach people how to be healthy.
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.
Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
What do I consider a teacher should be? One who breathes life into knowledge so that it takes new form in progress and civilization.
Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in.
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.
I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.
If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow
I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.
There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He died from hi-fiveing.
We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers).
It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.
President Obama said he plans on training 10,000 new math and science teachers. How about teaching math to that economic team of his?
A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.
I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do.
The theory of the teacher with all these immigrant kids was that if you spoke English loudly enough they would eventually understand.
I was fantastically well versed by the time I left school. I had a teacher who put A Clockwork Orange my way, and Catcher in the Rye.