Educator Quotes - Page 10

• In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator.

  Tim Gunn

  Voice, Want, Loses

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• I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

  John Shirley

  Men, Thinking, Enough

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• Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units.

  David Almond

  Children, Different, Want

  "A hit from a myth" by Kit Spring, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003.

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• It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator.

  Philip Selznick

  Leader, Technique, Well Said

  Philip Selznick (2011). “Leadership in Administration: A Sociological Interpretation”, p.127, Quid Pro Books

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• Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Leader, Politics, Ordinary

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• I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Class, Racism

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• We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

  Henry Miller

  Criticism, Dull, Way

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.166, New Directions Publishing

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• Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it.

  Laird Hamilton

  Girl, Values

  "Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece for the winter cover of Inspirato Magazine". Interview with Grant Davis, www.lairdhamilton.com. December 08, 2014.

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• I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified.

  Maria Shriver

  School, Kids, Scared

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I saw the end of the general magazine business at the end of the '70s, and I knew I had to move into another profession when the advertising dollar moved from magazines to television. The magazine business as we knew it was over. We were no longer the educators of the world.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Moving, Dollars, Magazines

  Interview with Suzanne Snider, believermag.com. May 2010.

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• Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Educational, Suffering

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

  Derek Bok

  Regret, Direct Effect, Effects

  "Should Governments Make Happiness A Priority?". Interview with Alison St. John, www.kpbs.org. April 26, 2011.

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• It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Children, Games, Parent

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• We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

  Adam Savage

  Real, Curiosity, Scientist

  "Stay Curious with Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters". Interview with Jenny Williams, www.wired.com. October 5, 2009.

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• An educator should think of a child as a gardener thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right soil and the right amount of water. If your roses fail to bloom, it does not occur to you to whip them, but you try to find out what has been amiss in your treatment of them. ... The important thing is what the children do, and not what they do not do. And what they do, if it is to have value, must be a spontaneous expression of their own vital energy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Teaching, Thinking

  "The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959".

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• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Spiritual, Art

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• There are great jazz educators that I meet all the time. I met a guy named Paul Luchessi who has a high school jazz program in Fresno. And Bob Athayde who runs a junior high program in Lafayette, California. And man, we walked into these schools and Paul Luchessi said, "Jon is the composer of Paradox." A hundred or something kids started to applaud. "What? You guys know that? I'm so blown away.

  Jon Gordon

  Running, School, Kids

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• Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool.

  Ron Rubin

  Communication, Opportunity, Difficult Work

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• Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school.

  Roy H. Williams

  Business, School, Artist

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• Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Mistake, Thought Provoking, Honest

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• My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators.

  Edwin Moses

  Mother, Father, School

  Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. July 1, 2002.

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• This is a very challenging moment for educators. Our children are headed for a much more networked existence, one that allows for learning to occur 24, 7, 365, one that renders physical space much less important for learning, one that will challenge the relevance of classrooms as currently envisioned, and one that challenges our roles as teachers and adult learners.

  Will Richardson

  Teacher, Children, Space

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• So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

  Robert Muller

  World, Curriculum, Evolution

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• From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.

  Thomas Armstrong

  Motivation, Lying, Mean

  Thomas Armstrong (1998). “Awakening Genius in the Classroom”, p.2, ASCD

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• I know firsthand that educators are the most overworked and underpaid people around. It influenced me in that it was always about family first, and education was right next to that. There was never any question about whether I was going to college.

  Wendy Williams

  College, People, Next

  Source: aalbc.com

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