Yehudi Menuhin 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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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.
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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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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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I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
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Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
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You can play professional lacrosse, but they make less than a teacher's salary now. I always thought about that. And it's a very difficult career, a short career, as a pro athlete.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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I have sort of weaned myself off of reading my own reviews, which is a constant struggle.
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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You don’t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.
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I enjoy being a hyphenate. I've always thought of my career as a plate spinner in the circus.
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I read Stephen Crane's 'The Open Boat' when I was 11.
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I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.
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The best teacher is the one who himself has had to struggle to learn.
