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We believe that this initiative is a critical first step in our nation s effort to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich and… — Unknown Author
If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared, well… — Randi Weingarten
To improve our schools, we have to humanize them and make education personal to every student and teacher in the system. Education is always about… — Ken Robinson
There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the… — Nancy Kassebaum
What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need. — Elbert Hubbard
Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach. — John Amos Comenius
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he… — Soren Kierkegaard
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my… — Haim Ginott
Teachers are the agents through which knowledge and skills are communicated and rules of conduct enforced. — John Dewey
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral… — Paulo Freire
This is the road I have tried to follow as a teacher: living my convictions; being open to the process of knowing and being sensitive… — Paulo Freire
Sometimes a simple, almost insignificant gesture on the part of a teacher can have a profound formative effect on the life of a student. — Paulo Freire
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. — William James
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget. — William James
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with… — William James
The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these… — William James
But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst… — William James
You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock… — William James
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and… — William James
The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Teaching people skills without giving them a vision for a better future - a vision based on common values - is only training. — Nido R Qubein
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. — Saul Bellow
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what… — Rudyard Kipling
A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever. — Louis L'Amour
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realize I… — Moon Unit Zappa

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