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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Thank You, Education

  Anatole France (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)”, p.120, Delphi Classics

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• It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Life, Education, Reading

  "Why Schools Don't Educate". John Taylor Gatto's New York City Teacher of the Year Acceptance Speech, www.naturalchild.org. January 31, 1990.

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• Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.

  Theodore Burghard Hurt Brameld

  Success, Education, Teaching

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• If you just do something, then you're a five-year wonder and, goodbye, you're gone. But if people feel it's worthwhile, not only do they copy but they want to learn how to do it To me, that's what it's all about. If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?' It was the teaching of others so that they could take my work and take it further.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Goodbye, Work, Teaching

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• We educators stand at a special point in time

  Robert J. Marzano

  Education, Time, Special

  Robert J. Marzano, Debra Pickering, Jane E. Pollock (2001). “Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement”, p.1, ASCD

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• If these United States can be called a body, then Kentucky can be called its heart.

  Jesse Stuart

  Heart, Kentucky, Usa

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• I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.

  Jesse Stuart

  Heart, Kentucky, Blood

  Jesse Stuart (1975). “My World”, p.37, University Press of Kentucky

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• To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.

  Warren E. Burger

  Teaching, Rights, Would Be

  "Does the same-sex marriage ruling mean trouble for other LGBT rights cases?" by Scott Lemieux, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2015.

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• The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

  David Ausubel

  Knowledge, Learning, Important

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• The only way to build a church, if you have a Bible church, is to preach out of the Bible, teach out of the Bible, read out of the Bible.

  Lester Roloff

  Bible, Christian, Reading

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• Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Education, School, Measurement

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• Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

  Epictetus

  Fathers Day, Teaching, Son

  Epictetus (1895*). “Discourses: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "My Country", Volume 2, No. 3, published by Litchfield Historical Society, p. 23, September 1968.

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• Students learn as much for a teacher as from a teacher.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Students

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• Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.

  Robert Genn

  Disappointment, Abandonment, Wells

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• An enlightened teacher is able to put a tremendous amount of power through a person who seeks knowledge and escalates the evolution of the individual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Able, Evolution, Enlightened

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• The teacher will perform miracles. Not just to delight and amuse people, but showing them that miraculous occurrences indicate that there is something more.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Miracle, Delight

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• A teacher is someone who has taken their mind much further than you have. They've gone into the void further. They've seen the luminous realities. No one has seen them all...but they've seen more than you have and they understand the trap of self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Taken, Reflection, Reality

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• The teacher is transmitting pure awareness and consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Consciousness, Awareness, Masters

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• If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Firefighter, Political, Enemy

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• Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Children, School, Eight

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• I conceived of myself in large part as a teacher. There wasn't a great understanding of gender discrimination. People knew that race discrimination was an odious thing, but there were many who thought that all the gender-based differentials in the law operated benignly in women's favor. So my objective was to take the Court step by step to the realization, in Justice Brennan's words, that the pedestal on which some thought women were standing all too often turned out to be a cage.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Race, Law, People

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Voice, Use, Speak

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• The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

  Nikolay Konstantinov

  Rewards, Students, Mathematics

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• You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Able, Including

  Source: www.salon.com

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