Educator Quotes - Page 5

• Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals, educators, youth and other concerned citizens can play in fostering a reawakening of America's battered public memories.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Fighting, Artist

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close.

  Mike Patton

  Environmental, Thoroughbreds, Slaughter

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• Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Half, Firsts, Practicals

  Russell Baker (1991). “There's a Country in My Cellar”, Avon Books

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• The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

  Karl Marx

  Men, Doctrine, Needs

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• I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.

  Franz Kafka

  Education, Time, Laughter

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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• For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Cutting, Tasks, Three

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Political, Society

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• As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people – I am ready to lead.

  Donald Berwick

  Doctors, Careers, People

  "Berwick announces run for governor" by Joanne Kenen, www.politico.com. June 17, 2013.

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• As an author, you go into the school, it gets written about in the paper. It sucks that your book was banned, but you almost benefit from it. The bummer is all of the incredible educators. Nobody is writing about them. They are on the frontlines still, to this day, fighting to reinstate those programs.

  Matt de la Pena

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Your educators can only be your liberators.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Liberators

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• Restoring prayer ... will scarcely at this date solve the grievous public school problem. Public schools are expensive and massive centers for cultural and ideological brainwashing, at which they are unfortunately far more effective than in teaching the 3 R's or in keeping simple order within the schools. Any plan to begin dismantling the public school monstrosity is met with effective opposition by the teachers' and educators' unions. Truly radical change is needed to shift education from public to unregulated private schooling, religious and secular, as well as home schooling by parents.

  Murray Rothbard

  Education, Teacher, Religious

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• Jonathan Wells has done us all - the scientific community, educators, and the wider public - a great service. In Icons of Evolution he has brilliantly exposed the exaggerated claims and deceptions that have persisted in standard textbook discussions of biological origins for many decades, in spite of contrary evidence. these claims have been so often repeated that they seem unassailable - that is, until one reads Wells's book.

  Dean H. Kenyon

  Book, Icons, Community

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• I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

  Trey Parker

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

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• I get flack for saying [when I visit a college and give a speech], "This is a nice college, but the really great educator is McDonald's." They hate me for saying this and think I'm a slimy creature. But McDonald's hires people with bad work habits, trains them, and teaches them to come to work on time and have good work habits. I think a lot of what goes on there is better than at Harvard.

  Charlie Munger

  Nice, Hate, College

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• It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance. There is more at work than stupidity and a flight from responsibility on the part of educators, parents and politicians who maintain these laws, there is also the growing sentiment that young people constitute a threat to adults and that the only way to deal with them is to subject them to mind-crushing punishment.

  Henry Giroux

  Crush, Girl, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.

  Roy Lessin

  Technology, Needs, Information

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• More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators.

  Christopher Bond

  Mean, Simple, Long

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• To win in the game of life, we all need both a healthy mind and body. By involving children in the fun and dynamic fitness programs offered by Len Saunders, we help them maximize not only their physical potential, but more importantly their intellectual potential. You don't need to be an outstanding athlete to be physically fit - you just need to participate. This book is an outstanding reference for parents and educators alike who want to promote better health for our children.

  Digger Phelps

  Children, Fun, Book

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• Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Overcoming, Resistance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.452

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• Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement.  So it is with morals and patriotism.

  John Goodlad

  Advancement, Would Be, Quests

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• A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow.

  Steve Lacy

  Athlete, Artist, Dancer

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• Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book.

  Liane Holliday Willey

  Children, Self Esteem, Block

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• As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To meet this challenge, we need to become strategic learners ourselves by deliberately expanding our perspectives and updating our approaches.

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs

  Perspective, Challenges, Needs

  Heidi Hayes Jacobs (2010). “Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World”, p.7, ASCD

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• The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Teaching, Inspiration

  "Global Ideas from Pluto's Challenger". Interview with Marina Leight, Converge Magazine, May 21, 2009.

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• Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role, or that of an add on.

  John A. Hiigli

  Art, Design, Parent

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