My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish.… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
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Some day we'll awake, have a reformation of the heart, teach our kids honor and kill a few sex psychologists, put boys… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly.… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
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To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
My mom always said that she didn't wear a red nose and big shoes because that's the reason people are scared of… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But a topee is not a turban, and I had been my teacher's pupil before I became my husband's wife, learning to… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
The individuals who intervened in my life, transformed it, didn't do so in a vacuum. One was a manager of a children's… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I now understand what Nelle Morton meant when she said that one of the great tasks in our time is to "hear… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days.… — Amit Bhatia Copy Share Image
I started to teach social science for the sixth grade. I wasn't a teacher, but I had enough college lessons. I was… — Ed ONeill Copy Share Image
Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
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Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
Today again the teacher is the important thing, but on the other hand anti-Semitism is growing today. No doubt about it. All… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these… — Franz Cizek Copy Share Image
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There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
We with my husband [Joseph Millar] are often the first reader for one another's work, and we often also have the last… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I attended the High School of Industrial Arts and studied with many great artists as painting is something that you never stop… — Tony Bennett Copy Share Image
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It would seem that not only is religion lacking in the schools - so is common sense. I wonder what a teacher… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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