Teacher Quotes - Page 37

• Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

  Jodi Picoult

  Deserve

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age . . . [so that] he might be the perfect teacher in all things, perfect not only in respect to the setting forth of truth, perfect also in respect to relative age

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Jesus, Children, Men

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• What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Educational, Teaching, People

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

  Richard Brautigan

  School, Play, Cafeteria

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• Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.

  Isabel Allende

  Believe, Men, Race

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• Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

  John Amos Comenius

  Educational, Giving, Three

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• Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Baby, Heart, Artist

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.186, Ultramarine Publishing

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• You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Believe, Teaching

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• It almost seems as though this roiling world is conspiring to test our patience at every turn. In fact, it is. With this in mind, we would be wise to look on our imperfect environment as a teacher rather than an antagonist. It constantly shows us that we need to be patient on an ongoing basis, not just every now and then, if we´re going to realize true inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment.

  Surya Das

  Wise, Patience, Inner Peace

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• The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Educator, Duty

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• A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.

  Thomas Ehrlich

  College, Ideas, Three

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• I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

  Ben Goldacre

  Water, Arseholes, Body

  Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• Scientific observation then has established that education is not what the teacher gives; education is a natural process spontaneously carried out by the human individual, and is acquired not by listening to words but by experiences upon the environment.

  Maria Montessori

  Giving, Listening, Environment

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• Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Stars, Tired

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• Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

  Louis L'Amour

  Memories, Book, Past

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• But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Mean, Adversity, Kids

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• In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Country, Teaching

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• If you don't let a teacher know what level you are -- by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance -- you will not learn or grow

  Stephen Covey

  Ignorance, Asking, Levels

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• I want my brain to slide back into the slot it was meant to be in, rest there the way it did before the fall of last year, back when I was young, witty, and my teachers said I had incredible promise.

  Ned Vizzini

  Witty, Fall, Years

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• Macey was just starting to argue when Abby asked, "What can you tell me about the gunmen?" "They're amateurs," Hale said at the exact same time Macey told her teacher, "They're pros.

  Ally Carter

  Abby, Arguing, Starting

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• They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

  Tawni O'Dell

  Fun, Book, Perfectly Good

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• The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy

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• And even if she isn’t—even if by some miracle, she survived the escape and has been squeezing out a living in the Wilds—she would never join forces with the resisters. She would never be violent or vengeful. Not Lena, who used to practically faint when she pricked a finger, who couldn’t even lie to a teacher about being late. She wouldn’t have the stomach for it.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Miracle, Violent

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• On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that's me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul so it goes.

  Eddie Vedder

  Circles, People, Soul

  Song: Guaranteed, Album: Into The Wild, 2007

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• Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Retirement, Teaching, Home

  Robert Neelly Bellah (1985). “Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life”, p.65, Univ of California Press

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