Hermann Hesse Quotes
You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
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Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
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Hungary needs Russia.
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Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
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We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
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There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
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A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my father is a Muslim, and my wife is a Hindu. Personally, I feel spirituality is about being clear-hearted. It involves a sense of connection with the divine.
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During my university years, I was doing a lot of theatre acting. I would be skipping school for rehearsal. We were rehearsing at night - we finished at midnight, and I had to go to school at 8 A.M. It was very tiring.
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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
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Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
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When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.
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My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
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We know what gets cuts first. It's going to be the maintenance of the buildings. It's going to be professional development for teachers, and after that, it's going to go right on down the line to school staffing.
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Day and night Balian studied Arabic, both the language of the street corner and the more formal prose of his oneiric teachers. It was not that he mastered the language but rather that it mastered him. He found himself thinking in a language in which nouns shaded imperceptibly into verbs, a language which seemed to discount being in the present, a language with a special verb form for colours and physical deformities, a language of rhythmic syntax and many tiered layers of sense, communicated through hawking stops, gutturals, odd emphases and doublings.
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Sometimes the purpose of our opponents is to be our teachers.
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I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.
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You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.
