“Students get the message bout what adults want. When 4th graders in a variety of classroomswere asked what their teachers most wanted… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orchestra, and my… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Phrases and their actual meanings: My teacher has never liked me. Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
All drama teachers are very effusive, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical. Those people don't… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The normal kid can differentiate between various aspects of life, but a kid with dyslexia has to connect all those dots, and… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“The very best thing you can be in life is a teacher, provided you are crazy in love with what you teach,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My job requires me to put on a little dress and run around the streets of New York in heels. But I… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Sometimes that's a lot to ask, so I'm not going to pressure them into being at a certain stage. As a coach… — Bo Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you.… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up.… — Robert Glaser Copy Share Image
I'm a natural baritone, so I had challenges in that middle range, which would be that tenor area, singing in my natural… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to be around a couple of coaches who took me under their wing and taught me how to train,… — Kirk Ferentz Copy Share Image
Margaret Mead was both a student of civilization and an exemplar of it. To a public of millions, she brought the central… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
California's death penalty is ... an incredibly costly penalty, and the money would be better spent keeping kids in school, keeping teachers… — Gil Garcetti Copy Share Image
To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
“You know what I was thinking? [Ruthie] got so excited when she was spouting this ahistorical countertextual nonsense, and I caught myself… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I used to say, ‘Things cost too much.’ Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, ‘The problem isn’t that… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In my own life, when I was most inspired by a teacher, it always involved a real dialogue, a looseness and a… — Michael Goldenberg Copy Share Image
When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and… — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
I write to tell stories. I believe that there a some professions in the world that will last forever: doctor or a… — Eppu Nuotio Copy Share Image