Educator Quotes - Page 8

• Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Father, Looks, I Can

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• Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Beautiful, School, Discovery

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• The educator has the duty of not being neutral.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Duty

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• As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

  James D. Watson

  Dream, Fruit, Available

  "Watson retires". Prof. James D. Watson's statement on blacks and whites just before his retirement from the post of Chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York State, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Relationship, Teacher, Raises Questions

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

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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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• Nature is often overlooked as a healing balm for the emotional hardships in a child's life. You'll likely never see a slick commercial for nature therapy, as you do for the latest antidepressant pharmaceuticals. But parents, educators, and health workers need to know what a useful antidote to emotional and physical stress nature can be. Especially now.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Stress, Healing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.45, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.

  Randy Pausch

  Self, Giving, Best Gift

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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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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• Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year.

  Eva Amurri

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

  "Talking About Teaching with Eva Amurri Martino". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.

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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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• The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930)

  Philip Wylie

  Book, League, May

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• When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

  Larry R. Thompson

  Country, Future, Thinking

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• We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Discovery, Gains, Depth

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work.

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Lines, Needs, Finish Line

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

  Georg Brandes

  Age, Helping, Young

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.6, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.

  Marina Warner

  Children, Two, Years

  Marina Warner (2016). “Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary”, p.33, Oxford University Press

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• Educators need to know what happens in the world of the children with whom they work. They need to know the universe of their dreams, the language with which they skillfully defend themselves from the aggressiveness of their world, what they know independently of the school, and how they know it.

  Paulo Freire

  Dream, Children, School

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• Educators remind us that what counts in a classroom is not what the teacher teaches; it’s what the learner learns.

  Alfie Kohn

  Teacher, Classroom, Learners

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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