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Teachers Quotes by Jonathan Kozol
- Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they…
- My goal is to connect the young teachers to the old, to reignite their sense of struggle.
- I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
- Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.
- I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling…
- Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in…
- 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…
- The future teachers I try to recruit are those show have refused to let themselves be neutered in this way, either in their private lives…
- I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and…
- I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection…
More Teachers Quotes
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Deprivation sometimes can be one of the most marvelous teachers. — Michele Bachmann
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way. — Karl Barth
- Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. — Bob Beauprez
- Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom. — Bob Beauprez
- All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead… — Martha Beck
- There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or… — Berenice Abbott
- If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort,… — Andrea Bocelli
- In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing… — Andrea Bocelli