Teacher Quotes - Page 19

• Any good teacher should become acquainted with relevant technologies. But the technologies should not dictate an education goal. Rather, the teacher (or parent or student or policy maker) should ask: can technology help to achieve this goal, and which technologies are most likely to be helpful?

  Howard Gardner

  Technology, Goal, Parent

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• As a teacher in order not to have to answer too many questions, you stretch your answers.

  Desmond Tutu

  Order, Answers

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

  Anna Quindlen

  Reinforcement, Changed, Written Word

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• I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art, and computer science; things that I would have never had the opportunity to even meet had it not been for those people taking time out of their schedules, helping us as children to travel all over the world while sitting in a gymnasium. That's what I did before I was a musician, before I was a recording artist, I was a teacher and a community leader.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Children, Growing Up

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• I know what it's like to be told by your teacher that you'll never amount to anything.

  T.I.

  Knows, Amount

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• [The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the same time the reasons why we were at San Francisco State in the late sixties was because of the agitation and movement building that had occurred within our communities. We saw ourselves not separate from the community but intimately connected to it.

  Danny Glover

  San Francisco, Community, Together

  Source: progressive.org

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• [Betsy DeVos] does care about charter schools, which are public schools. She does care about choice, which is a perfectly legitimate thing to care about. It's because it's the one issue where the Democratic donor base was really energized, which was the teacher unions.

  David Brooks

  School, Issues, Choices

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

  George Carlin

  Talking, People, Firsts

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.

  Florence Nightingale

  Mother, Father, Math

  Source: imperialismeraflorencenightingale.blogspot.com

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• "Rocket Night" is my take on bullying culture. I think this is getting better, thanks to the anti-bullying work being done by my generation. But there's a way that coaches, teachers, parents, and administration officials can conspire against our students who need the most support.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Bullying, Night, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

  John Darnielle

  Real

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's important to know how to lead and manage a classroom with flexibility. Students of all ages are quite capable of learning these routines and contributing to their success once the teacher is comfortable guiding students in that direction.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Age, Important, Students

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Space, Needs, Use

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Stress, Thinking, Impact

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Deep Understanding, Needs, Students

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• In education, I'm going to try to find what works. One thing I want to do is improve the quality of teachers. There are a lot of people who want to go into teaching; it's fundamentally a very fulfilling profession. But people don't feel they have financial support. We pay starting teachers in particular too little to attract the quality people that we need. I want to make it easier for good people who want to go into teaching to do that.

  Charles Schumer

  Teaching, People, Support

  Source: www.questia.com

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• I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Believe, Years, Community

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My kids going to school and teachers denying my kids the grades that they should have once they found out that I was their father.

  John Carlos

  Father, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Moving, Kids

  Source: www.politico.com

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• My English teacher, Dr. John Lindstrom, taught me an appreciation for the written word. Until his class, I'd dabbled in journalism and essay writing. But when he selected one of my essays as the best in the class, it gave me the confidence to see myself as a writer.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Appreciation, Writing, Class

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• Although Christ in my mind is an absolute yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ. They're supposed to be representing Jesus, but they're not doing it very well. They're letting him down very badly, and that's a big turn off.

  George Harrison

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, School, Eight

  Source: www.mott.org

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• I never studied. I was too afraid. I thought that if an acting teacher had said to me, "You know what, you're not good," I would not have gone any further. It was easier for me to justify going to an audition and getting rejected, maybe because they wanted somebody blonde, maybe because I wasn't experienced enough. I could live with that more easily.

  Demi Moore

  Acting, Auditions, Blonde

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Mother, Jobs, Husband

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm learning a lot by reading teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron. They teach me because I feel like I have a responsibility to the communities that I speak to.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Reading, Responsibility, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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