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My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.
Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.
Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn’t talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.
From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself
Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.
When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student.
There's no distinction. A teacher is a preacher. The teachers in public schools are preachers, and the preachers in church are teachers.
If you miss one class, you know it; if you miss two classes, your teacher knows it, and if you miss three classes, the audience knows it
My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.
If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.
Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
I had acting teachers, and one of the things that was encouraged was to keep it fresh, to be spontaneous. That's the magic of film often.
Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.
Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.
We're created in God's image, but our souls or spirits are not offshoots of God's own Spirit - as New Age teachers would have us believe.
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.
I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.
But it had no doubt sprung from true emotion, for all that parents ever wanted, really, was for you to love their child the way they did.
Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."
A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in illusions.
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.
Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.
Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
It's considered very, very bad karma, if I can cut to the chase, to take power from a teacher and not use it for something very positive.
I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.
I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.
Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.
Seems like my iron play gets a little better every year. Which makes sense - I've been working hard on things with my teacher, Jim McLean.
Populists hate journalists, they hate teachers, they hate lawyers, but they tend to like rich people. There's something deeply consistent.
Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.
My teacher said once that every man faces seven enemies in his lifetime. Sickness, hunger, betrayal, envy, greed, old age, and then death.