William Arthur Ward Quotes
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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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.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.
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I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.
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My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
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My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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I want to inspire, and be inspired.
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We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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The Safari Club International has worked the legal system hard to try to keep polar bears - threatened primarily by climate change, but also by hunting - on the list of creatures people can import as trophies after shooting.
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That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.
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Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.
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A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires
