We have had this massive effort on K-12 reform, raising standards, great teachers, great principals, turning around chronically failing schools, raising the… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
My singing teacher said it would take three years before I could sing well enough to be accepted as a professional. They… — Barbi Benton Copy Share Image
“School is like theater. Teachers are like directors, students are like actors, and classes are like theatrical presentations.” — Victor Miller Copy Share Image
My mom was a piano teacher. It turned into something of a competition between me and her students... I liked the idea… — Grace Potter Copy Share Image
For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
If I hadn't become a professional basketball player, I would have become a history teacher. There's so much to learn from history. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders,… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
It is very important to always hold the thought of an enlightened teacher in your mind in a very positive way. When… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face… — Roger Penrose Copy Share Image
Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
People are quite clear in viewing nuns as the servants and the teachers and the supporters of the poor. You contrast that… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
We disagree with the assertion that great teachers can be replaced by online alternatives. The futuristic claim that technology will triumph over… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses—and so that we don’t have to be scrounging… — Marion Barry Copy Share Image
Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense. — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Student is #1. If a student comes to me and needs an hour after class of my time, I am going to… — Jake Anderson Copy Share Image
“Leaders are raised through training and experience. Nobody was born naturally with hand-gloves of leadership. We come to life to search for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The Teacher asked all the students in a class to write an essay on a cricket match. All were busy writing except… — Troublemaker Copy Share Image
The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, lived with my grandmother,… — Ben Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
If kids come to us from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
“The first thing, of course, is to find a vacancy, a place where a teacher is wanted, and the second thing is… — Thomas E. Sanders Copy Share Image
I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also one who… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“But that was all teachers ever did, wasn’t it? They grew and grew and grew until they wondered if they were the… — Mynah K Copy Share Image
The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or… — Phil Vischer Copy Share Image
There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
When I used to go to school, the teachers used to say to my mum, 'Hector looks like he's going to a… — Hector Bellerin Copy Share Image
Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Time and again, researchers have shown that students' capabilities are powerfully impacted by the identities they develop for themselves as the result… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this.… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Mentoring is a mutuality that requires more than meeting the right teacher: the teacher must meet the right student. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
I am in love with my teacher, he has thought me a lot of stuffs and still been teaching me a lot… — Bismark Frimpong Copy Share Image
I kind of slept through school. I wasn't engaged at all. My exercise books were empty at the end of the year.… — Jacob Anderson Copy Share Image
