Confucius Quotes
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	I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.   
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	My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.   
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	I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.   
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	As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.   
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	Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.   
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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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	One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.   
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	Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.   
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	Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.   
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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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	Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.   
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	Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.   
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	It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.   
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	I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.   
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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 learned life from some good teachers.   
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	Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.   
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	I grew up loving music and being super involved in church choir and school musicals and such, but when I started writing is when I fell in love with the idea of doing it for the rest of my life.   
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	I wanted to clearly define my language: a timeless shoe with a little twist.   
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	I don't want anybody to not recognize how appreciative I am of the volume of e-mails I get.   
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	Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.   
 
	
	 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					