Educator Quotes - Page 4

• Work is one of the best educators of practical character.

  Samuel Smiles

  Character, Practicals

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.88

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• My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  "Why Revive ‘Cosmos?’ Neil DeGrasse Tyson Says Just About Everything We Know Has Changed". Interview with David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I do have a plan for the country [the USA]. It needs education. And there should be drug education - only people should be taught how to smoke pot, because even potheads don't know how to smoke pot. I've evolved into not only an activist, but an educator. I want to show people how, when, and why they should smoke pot.

  Tommy Chong

  Country, Usa, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think there's responsibility both at the federal and provincial levels for education in a grander sense - and that is to provide recognition financially to people who are educators, to help provide access to on-the-spot learning, so kids are not biased against science. Especially when people are younger, their curiosity needs never to be beaten down. And you can only do that if you have people who love the subject they're teaching, and who provide the student with the ability to do it in the field.

  Roberta Bondar

  Teaching, Kids, Responsibility

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is part of the educator's responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.

  John Dewey

  Education, Responsibility, Ideas

  John Dewey (2007). “Experience And Education”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

  Jim Carroll

  Jobs, Powerful, Children

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• In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Acceptance, Thinking, America

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• I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Trying, Objective Truth, World

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  People, The End Of The Day, Population

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

  David Miliband

  Country, Teacher, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not writing for myself. I'm writing as an educator, I'm writing to stimulate others.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing

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• The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Philosophy, Teaching

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.34, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.

  Gloria Steinem

  Teacher, School, Justice

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Sense of community was really fostered by Larry Laurenzano, who was a great educator.

  Jon Gordon

  Community, Larry

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• I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible,
  But when I swing my swords they all choppable,
  I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper,
  Child educator, plus head amputator.

  GZA

  Children, Rap, Heart

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• My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.

  Wilder Penfield

  Children, Giving, Parent

  Wilder Penfield, Lamar Roberts (2014). “Speech and Brain Mechanisms”, p.257, Princeton University Press

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• The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Years, Asking Questions, Taught

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second.

  Will Richardson

  Teaching, Thinking, Experts

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• We do not merely give a religious education because that would seem to imply the possibility of some other education, a secular education, for example. But we hold that all education is divine, that every good gift of knowledge and insight comes from above, that the Lord the Holy Spirit is the supreme educator of mankind, and that the culmination of all education (which may at the same time be reached by a little child) is that personal knowledge of and intimacy with God in which our being finds its fullest perfection.

  Charlotte Mason

  Religious, Children, Personal Knowledge

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• Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Dream, Children, Believe

  "The Lost Princess of Oz". Book by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

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• There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.

  Kurt Squire

  Fun, Educational, Games

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• Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

  Dave Carter

  Teacher, Teaching, Assessment

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• How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself.

  Paulo Freire

  Attitude, Teaching, Caring

  Paulo Freire (2000). “Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage”, p.65, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• In the field of education, educators know that they leave a lasting impact on their students for better or for worse. Trust is established or diminished in the classroom and very good educators understand that they are fallible. Despite their best efforts, they will not always do the best for each student.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Impact, Best Effort, Fields

  Source: blogs.edweek.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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