Educator Quotes - Page 9

• A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Years, Effort

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Trying, Might

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• What constitutes a good manager in this field? He must be knowledgeable in the art with which he is concerned, an impresario, labor negotiator, diplomat, educator, publicity and public relations expert, politician, skilled businessman, a social sophisticate, a servant of the community, a tireless leader - becomingly humble before authority - a teacher, a tyrant, and a continuing student of the arts.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Teacher, Art, Humble

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• I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that is now before the Congress. I hope that it is important enough that most of you have studied it in detail. I hope that you understand that it represents the very best thinking that the leading educators of this country can produce.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Thinking

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.226, Best Books on

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• The Jesuits were good educators, exceptional teachers. In an era and in a society where freedom of speech was not held in high regard, of course, that the discourse be focused on what they were teaching, but we were able to go beyond this framework without incurring too great a risk.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Teacher, Teaching, Risk

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Realizing, Dependent

  "The New Industrial State". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter XXXIII, Section 4, p. 375, 1967.

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• I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

  Arthur Ashe

  Brother, Names, Black

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• A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Drawing, Way, Steps

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• Tim Price continues to explore and develop his deeply personal approach to music. Through the years his persistence, determination and passion has enabled him to create a stellar reputation as a multiple woodwind master, composer, producer, author and last but not least educator. Tim is one of the best musicians active today and I'm happy to say he's my friend.

  Bennie Maupin

  Determination, Passion, Persistence

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• When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Military, Media

  "Don’t Get Weak" by Thomas Sowell, www.nationalreview.com. May 1, 2007.

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• The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Beats, Court

  "The 700 Club". News, Talk-Show, www.imdb.com. (1966 - ).

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• Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

  Johan Huizinga

  Use, Spirit, Youth

  Johan Huizinga (1972). “America; a Dutch historian's vision, from afar and near”

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• The problem before the educator is to give the child control over his own nature, to enable him to hold himself in hand as much in regard to the traits we call good, as to those we call evil:.

  Charlotte Mason

  Children, Hands, Evil

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “The Original Home School Series”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

  Margaret Spellings

  Mean, Achievement, Gaps

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren's lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy. And while laudable efforts are being made to raise academic standards, this new and troubling deficiency is not being addressed in the standard school curriculum. As one Brooklyn teacher put it, the present emphasis in schools suggests that "we care more about how well schoolchildren can read and write than whether they'll be alive next week."

  Daniel Goleman

  Education, Teacher, Reading

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• In roughly the last century, important experiments have been launched by such charismatic educators as Maria Montessori, Rudolf Steiner, Shinichi Suzuki, John Dewey, and A. S. Neil. These approaches have enjoyed considerable success[...] Yet they have had relatively little impact on the mainstream of education throughout the contemporary world.

  Howard Gardner

  Education, Impact, Important

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• The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

  Catharine Beecher

  Teacher, Race, Perfect

  Catharine Esther Beecher, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1860). “An appeal to the people in behalf of their rights as authorized interpreters of the Bible”, p.235

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• Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

  Chris Crutcher

  Reading, Book, Stories

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• As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

  Peter Diamandis

  Phones, Physicians, Cost

  "Peter Diamandis: The Future of Business Is Rosy". bigthink.com.

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• However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

  Bob Filner

  Children, Epidemics, Practice

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• The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Kids, Differences

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• I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

  David Caruso

  Unemployment

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• Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

  Guy Claxton

  Encouragement, Teaching, Self

  Guy Claxton (2001). “Wise Up”, p.340, A&C Black

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• As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Ideas, 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'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

  John Shirley

  Men, Thinking, Enough

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