Education Quote by Charles Best Download Open image “I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.” — Charles Best ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Education Five Five years High High school Mentorship School Social studies Teacher
I grew up in the South Bronx in the 1970s. My dad worked in IT, and my mom was a teacher. — Sunny Hostin Copy Share Image
I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York. — Sami Gayle Copy Share Image
I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on… — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
Why is it that, when we want to think outside the proverbial box, we often put ourselves in one? We gather our team in… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy, paper, and pencils. I just figured there are people out… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Arianna Huffington is one of the greatest champions of this idea - that anyone can make a difference. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
People not only want to support public schools, but people warm to this idea of being a philanthropist, even if they might have only… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
If anything, we hope that DonorsChoose.org is going to be a prompt, a nudge in the side of the public school system to improve… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
If you track your organization's creativity by the number of brainstorms on your calendar, you're missing out. It's more important to capture those unplanned… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
One question we'll ask is, 'Who are you grateful for,' and a surprising number of people can't name anyone beyond their mother. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Our name is not great. It doesn't evoke anything about school or teachers. It doesn't roll off the tongue or stick in your head. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build,… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
Donors are sick of writing that $200 check to the Red Cross and not knowing whether it goes for the executive director's salary or… — Charles Best Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
“In school you are taught to obey and not to think straight for your own good. Otherwise the world would be full of millionaires… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will… — Ioannes Amos Commenius Copy Share Image
“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by” — H.D. (Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everything. Teachers and education can only remind… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image