“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
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
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
“If the pupil proves to be of so perverse a disposition that he would rather listen to some idle tale than to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That's what we do, and we're proud of… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think that educators are in sales. Essentially, what you are doing is making an exchange with your class. You're saying, 'Give… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever.… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image
Why don't men become primary teachers? Partly, I suppose, because the pay is so insulting; but then it is for all teachers,… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In Idaho, we hope to see educators using Khan Academy to individualize their instruction. Instead of a one-size-fits-all lesson, teachers will be… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
One thing I'm hearing a lot is from teachers who have felt that there's something wrong with the extreme group learning, but… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Teachers, social workers, public lawyers who bring companies to justice, government accountants who try to make sure money is spent as it… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to… — Julius Erving Copy Share Image
At 13, in my first year of Tonbridge, I went up for the part of Macbeth. I was up against the 17-… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“Hello Mrs Cannon,' said Melanie. 'Friday wants me to distract you so that she can get Parker to say something that isn't… — R.A. Spratt Copy Share Image
My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
“The task of teaching has never been more complex and the expectations that burden teachers are carried out in antiquated systems that… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher… — Shaun Sipos Copy Share Image
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968,… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who… — Tony Bates Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer;… — Mili Avital Copy Share Image
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The religious neutrality in our schools is, I would argue, one of our strengths. Teachers cannot inhibit or deride religion. But this… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working… — Quinn Shephard Copy Share Image
“An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I had teachers who said I was not good enough. So, I said I will become good enough. So I became this… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds,… — Julie Bowen Copy Share Image
“It’s great that Mommy and Daddy did all that uncool work, so you could sit in your air-conditioned classroom and shit all… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he… — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
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