Teacher Student Quotes - Page 4

• When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn

  LouAnne Johnson

  Teacher, Class, Miracle

  LouAnne Johnson (1995). “Dangerous Minds”, p.8, Macmillan

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• This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Teacher, Students, Paradox

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.182, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school."

  Bryan Fuller

  Teacher, School, Students

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• At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

  Nita Ambani

  Sports, Teacher, Children

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• To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing. If we can help the next generation become more self-aware, empathetic and emotionally resilient, they will bring their wisdom to healing the earth and creating a more peaceful world.

  Tara Brach

  Teacher, Healing, Creating

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• Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.

  David A. Kolb

  Teacher, Learning, Giving

  David A. Kolb, Irwin M. Rubin, Joyce Osland (1991). “Organizational behavior: an experiential approach”

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• The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Teacher, Students, Ideals

  Kenzaburo Oe (1998). “A Quiet Life”, p.98, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

  Donnie Burns

  Dance, Teacher, Knowing

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• Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Students, Term

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.80, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Communication, Reality

  Paulo Freire, Elizabeth Galligan, Romelia Hurtado de Vivas (2008). “Pioneers in Education: Essays in Honor of Paulo Freire”, p.109, Nova Publishers

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• Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Stars, Community

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ Standing Up in the Milky Way". Documentary, March 9, 2014.

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• There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

  Helen Thomas

  Teacher, Peace, Blue

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• Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.

  David Lynch

  Teacher, School, Giving

  "His Mission to Change the World Through Meditation". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.

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• The extraordinary language of Nonviolent Communication is changing how parents relate to children, teachers to students, and how we all related to each other and even to ourselves. It is precise, disciplined, and enormously compassionate. Most important, once we study NVC we can't ignore the potential for transformation that lies in any difficult relationship - if we only bother to communicate with skill and empathy.

  Bernie Glassman

  Teacher, Children, Lying

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• The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?

  Mercedes Lackey

  Teacher, Brother, Lost Love

  Mercedes Lackey (2016). “The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy”, p.188, Penguin

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