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A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
I certainly never expected to be a professional actor. I never expected to be in movies. I thought I would probably become a teacher.
While people who are enlightened are worthy of respect, to put them on a pedestal is a mistake. To undervalue them is also a mistake.
Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses.
Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's so depressing."
Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.
Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.
I never had a black teacher or lecturer, I never once met a black British person who held any sort of professional or managerial role.
I wanted to be an actor as a kid. My teacher in second grade had called a talent agency and had them call my house. My mom was so mad.
Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."
Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.
The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.
Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.
Musicians are like a preacher, a teacher, an actor. You are the mediator who can transfer the energy of beautiful music to the others.
Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.
Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.
I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.
The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
You must discriminate between those who claim to help you and only want to manipulate you and those who are free, who never manipulate.
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.
When I was in school, one of my teachers was crazy about me. I once heard her tell another teacher, "I wish he was my kid for one day!"
The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.
When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.
It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.
Professors go batty too, perhaps more often than other people, although owing to their profession, their madness is less often remarked.
I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.
The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.
I grew up dancing, and my ballet teacher was literally a drill sergeant; she was so strict and so scary. And it made me a better dancer.
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.