My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a… — Joan Ganz Cooney Copy Share Image
I’ve worked in an economy that rewards someone who saves the lives of others on a battlefield with a medal, rewards a… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The rise of the prosperity gospel is one of the great challenges to the true message of Jesus Christ. While not an… — Ed McBain Copy Share Image
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the… — Herbert M. Shelton Copy Share Image
I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance,… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I didn't take it seriously myself at the time, but now all of my old teachers are supportive. Even my principal -… — Tinie Tempah Copy Share Image
And Donald Trump is not going to give in to the special interests in this country, like the teachers' union, who say… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
We grow up thinking that the best answer is in someone else's brain. Much of our education is an elaborate game of… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
It is then, we say, in the successive stages of his experience, that the believer sees more distinctly, and adores more profoundly,… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to… — Heather Hemmens Copy Share Image
I just want people to understand that regardless of what it is that you do - whether you're a teacher, whether you… — Nafessa Williams Copy Share Image
I learned to paint at home from my mom. She was a very good teacher, but with spray paint, I taught myself.… — Alec Monopoly Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock,… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Doing retreats, getting personal teachings from time to time from inspiring teachers, all of this helps to recharge our batteries. Then we… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
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We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Teachers are often rightly praised for all they do for our children. But there are others out there who are working to… — Carrie O'Maley Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
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People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an… — J. P. Morgan Copy Share Image
Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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