Teacher Quotes
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You must completely dedicate yourselves to it. To do less will be to let down your country, your state, your parents, your teachers, and ultimately, yourselves. Remember this: The only good citizen is the well-educated citizen.
Homer Hickam
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Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Denis Waitley
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Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Or, I should say, I lie by omission. I tell them about my brilliant fourth-grade teacher, Miss Artis, who assigned us 'Johnny Tremain' and 'Where the Red Fern Grows' and 'Tuck Everlasting,' all books that made an impression on me. And people nod in approval.
Cristina Henriquez
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Guess what, Satsuki! I realized something wonderful!
I don't have to be a teacher to light the way for others. I can make my dream come true in other ways!! And for that, I need you. It has to be you. I love you. Without you... I can't even smile.
Bisco Hatori
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Effective teaching may be the hardest job there is.
William Glasser
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The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income for positions like nursing assistants, preschool teachers and paramedics are all under $15.
David Rolf
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The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.
Martti Ahtisaari
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Openness is something any teacher strives to instill in his or her students.
Chris Raschka
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If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target
Damian Green
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The word 'guru' is very loaded, so I would never refer to myself that way. I see myself as a teacher.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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They [teachers] beat it right out of me. Or they beat it into me and educated it out of me. I don't know; that's an interesting question. The Catholic schools required work, so I think that may have been where the work ethic came from, in answer to the question of how my character may have been shaped.
William Mapother
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The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."
Confucius
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Teachers teach and do the world good, Kings just rule and most are never understood
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve.
Barack Obama
