Deborah Meier Quotes
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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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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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In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
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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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A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers.
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Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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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.
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Although I was able to study music with teachers, I never studied lyric writing. I read poetry, and I read other lyricists. But they were never writing in the style or the form that I was interested in.
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No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop your books and run like hell...
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Our teachers deserve better feedback.
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
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I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel.
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Since emotional regulation is the critical issue in managing the effects of trauma and neglect, it would make an enormous difference if teachers, army sergeants, foster parents, and mental health professionals were thoroughly schooled in emotional-regulation techniques. Right now this still is mainly the domain of preschool and kindergarten teachers, who deal with immature brains and impulsive behavior on a daily basis and who are often very adept at managing them.
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The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning.
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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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I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and later gave me my first instructions in sprinting. I happened to be at the right place at the right time.
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There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.
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Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.
