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Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in…

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More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I…
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do…
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe.…
Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of…
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is…
If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand…
As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are…
Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value…
Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image…
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge…
Nationally, overwhelmingly non-white schools receive $1,000 less per pupil than overwhelmingly white schools.

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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
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee… — Maria Callas
Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. — Richard Hamming
From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to… — Marcus Aurelius
Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more. — Evan Esar
Good teachers never say anything. What they do is create the conditions under which learning takes place. — S I Hayakawa
In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work. — Parker J. Palmer
I used to think great teachers inspire you. Now I think I had it wrong. Good teachers inspire you; great teachers show… — Alfred Doblin
What I feel I can do is help people become aware of how pervasive and extensive the arts are, how they affect… — Unknown Author
Like all good teachers, the world repeats her lesson. Over and over ...with wordless variety... She spells the name of Love. — Joan Walsh Anglund
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education,… — William Glasser
I think good teachers are underpaid. — Peter Brimelow

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