Teacher Quotes
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A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.
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Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
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The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.
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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
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The best answer to the question, 'What is the most effective method of teaching?' is that it depends on the goal, the student, the content, and the teacher. But the next best answer is, 'Students teaching other students.'
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Feeling pummeled by the outside pounding of tests and standards, a teacher can easily hide and simply turn to the immediacy of the classroom. It is not surprising that many teachers burrow in their rooms with all that they know about their students. There is no place to take the information.
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Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.
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Prospective teachers may read about the science of education, but they'll only grasp the art in their early years by seeing it practiced and having it commended to them.
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You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.
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I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.
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A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.
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All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher.
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A teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
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If a teacher wants to know something why doesn't she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she's the teacher!
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Instill respect for teachers.
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Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
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The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings, and this experience you will find preserved in our great books and nowhere else.
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Success is a lousy teacher.
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There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.
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Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
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I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material.
