Teachers Quotes
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.
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One or two bad teachers is a problem with the teachers. A school with many bad teachers is a problem of leadership.
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I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
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These guys are teachers, and you can see it watching any of their practices, much less their games. You can watch (the ESPN program) 'Knight School' and see that he still loves to be in a coaching situation. I know he gets a little frustrated with the losses sometimes, but he's still out there doing it.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
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Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
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I love working with teachers and principals; they are my heroes. They are very dedicated to children, and it's very impactful.
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As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.
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It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
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Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.
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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
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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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We had to buy furniture and computers; we had to put a teacher's desk, wall unit and file cabinet in each classroom. We ordered all those items six months ago from different manufacturers. When they were delivered, they were stored and some pieces had to be assembled. We ordered half a million dollars worth of textbooks. It took a great deal of planning by everyone in the school district - from the custodians planning on how to schedule cleaning to how we were going to supply books and teachers. It was an unbelievably complex project.
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Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
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The importance of teachers in American education has never been a question, but recent research has established beyond doubt that the most important element of student achievement is the quality of the teacher. At the Corporation, we believe one of the most critical issues facing the country is the preparation of America's teachers, which is just not good enough. Creating a vision for change and sharing how to improve teacher preparation is something the Corporation is committed to. We are pleased to join forces with the Annenberg Foundation in pursuit of this goal.
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The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
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I want to emphasize having good, dedicated teachers in every classroom. We have the Teach for America program, which I strongly support.
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I mostly stayed in the background. I was doing quite good, but I wasn't interested in most of the subject-matter. I only found music and languages to be absorbing. I simply hadn't the desire of listening to the teachers. Maybe because it wasn't interesting enough what they had to tell. I couldn't take schooling seriously although I'd love to go back and really learn now - it wasn't what I needed at the time. My mind would wander.
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First grade is the prelude of things to come, a life organized around frontal-lobe capacities: sitting still; keeping sphincters in check; being able to use words rather than acting out; understanding abstract and symbolic ideas; planning for tomorrow; and being in tune with teachers and classmates.
