If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by… — Randi Weingarten Copy Share Image
Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Students never appreciate their teachers while they are learning. It is only later, when they know more of the world, that they… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson passion for math, the way I light up when I get asked questions about acting is the way her eyes… — Taraji P. Henson Copy Share Image
“My music teacher offered twittering madrigals and something about how, in Italy, in Italy, the oranges hang on the tree. He treated… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
I guess standup is really painting pictures with words - especially for me, as I describe quite fantastical, visual things. My art… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
When you ask the Universe to bless you in your effort to align yourself with your soul, you open a passageway between… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
My role models were the people in my life. My mom, for sure. My dad. The teachers. For me, role-modeling was immediate,… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if… — John Rosemond Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
What libraries give you is all three tenses - the past tense - the present tense in which we live and the… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The best teacher that I ever had, the best acting coach that I ever had wasn't the person I was trying to… — Alex Dodd Copy Share Image
In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Jackie Berman, a 64-year-old widow and former special education teacher from Chicago, enrolled in Obamacare. She really needed coverage after sustaining serious… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family… — Craig T. Nelson Copy Share Image
I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like… — D. B. Sweeney Copy Share Image
Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I'd like to give every young teacher some good news. Teaching is a very easy job. Administrators will tell you what to… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I was born of heterosexual parents. I was taught by heterosexual teachers in a fiercely heterosexual society. Television ads and newspaper ads… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse,… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Would you like to stand next to me and introduce yourself to the class?'' Smiled Mr Zimmerman, the English teacher. Nope, I… — Stella Coulson Copy Share Image
Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
An educator's most important task, one might say his holy duty, is to see to it that no child is discouraged at… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
My last name is Taylor. So in school, every time we got a project, I'm at the end. So I get to… — Valee Copy Share Image
Teacher : How Old are You ? Student : Check the Register .. Teacher : wer r u frm ? Student :… — Reynold Copy Share Image
The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
Michaelangelo said the mirror is our greatest teacher. My use of mirrors in my work helps me uncover psychic layers. Often, the… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference,… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
