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In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
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.
I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
When Matt Bevin tried to bully teachers and illegally cut their pensions, I proudly stood with them to fight back and win.
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.'
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.
I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.
Make no mistake about it: Next to parents and families, our teachers are the most important influence in our children's lives.
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.
I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks he's a real comedian.'
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!
The printed word is no longer as in demand as when I was of the age of pupils or even at the age of the teachers teaching them.
The nature of education fundamentally has not changed in a century - and I say this as someone whose parents are both teachers.
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
Give a lift to a tomato, you expect her to be nice, don't ya? After all, what kind of dames thumb rides, Sunday school teachers?
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.
Our name is not great. It doesn't evoke anything about school or teachers. It doesn't roll off the tongue or stick in your head.
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want.
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever.
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.
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.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
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.
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.
When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.
I'm an old soul. When I was a kid all the kids would be playing and I would be sitting on the steps with the teachers just watching.
When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.
If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.
I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid.
Teachers are expected to be teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, sociologists, psychologists, surrogate moms or dads, as the case may be.
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.
To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
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.