Teacher Quotes - Page 20

• My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Reading, Two, Choices

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

  Steve Harvey

  Men, Role Models, Hip Hop

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• There is a reason why Nelson Mandela went to Cuba to praise Castro and thank the Cuban people almost as soon as he got out of jail. That's a third world reaction and they understand it. Cuba played an enormous role in the liberation of Africa and the overthrow of Apartheid, sending doctors and teachers to the poorest places in the world, to Haiti, to Pakistan after the earthquake, almost everywhere. The internationalism is just astonishing. I don't think there has been anything like it in history.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Doctors, Earthquakes

  Source: pennpoliticalreview.org

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• For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Believe, School

  Source: progressive.org

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• I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect the rights and privileges and pay of their members. The problem is that we don't have an organized national interest group with the same heft as the teachers union that's advocating on behalf of children.

  Michelle Rhee

  Children, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need to identify who are the most highly effective teachers, and we should recognize and reward them for the incredible professionals that they are.

  Michelle Rhee

  Children, Mean, Single Child

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice or move them out of the profession. That's what I believe and quite frankly I have never met anybody at least to my face who said they disagree with that notion.

  Michelle Rhee

  Believe, Moving, Practice

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

  Steve Harvey

  Mother, Father, School

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Most of the time, teachers who talk about the Middle East do not know the history, culture or present context of the problems they are discussing. So they go to the media, which quote government or academic "experts" (who often are no such thing) or journalists who, by virtue of working for the media, are supposed to know what they are talking about. In the end they know little or nothing beyond a standard line that reflects the perceptions of the US government and its special-interest supporters. That is what the students get. Indeed, that is what we all get.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Media, Talking, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The reality is that I am the Teacher.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• As the river enters the sea and loses itself in the sea, so Krishnamurti has entered into that Life which is represented by some as The Christ, by others as The Buddha, by others still, as the Lord Maitreya. Hence Krishnamurti as an entity fully developed has entered into the Sea of Life and is the Teacher, because the moment you enter into that Life -which is the fulfilment of all Teachers, which is life of all the Teachers - the individual as such ceases.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sea, Rivers, Moments

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• What is of great importance is that everyone should concern himself with what I am saying, rather than with the personality of the Teacher, the body of the Teacher, where He dwells, and so on. That will lead to confusion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Confusion, Personality, Body

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• I hold that all the Teachers of the world have attained that Life which is the fulfilment of life. Hence, whenever anyone enters that Life, which is the culmination of all life, then he is ipso facto the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, because there is no distinction there.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  World, Christ, Lord

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Buddha called himself 'The Enlightened One' and Jesus called himself 'The Son of God'. To me the term 'World-Teacher' is of as little importance as 'The Son of God' or 'The Enlightened One'.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jesus, Son, World

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Understanding, Mind

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and especially from my grandmother (who also worked on a barge boat as a cook and a servant for rich folks in Manhattan, Newport, Grosse Point, and Sewickley, all havens of the very rich), that life was not especially fair and always full of bad possibilities, helped shape my future take on life. Then what really transformed my thinking was the war in Vietnam and trying to be a good teacher.

  Michael Yates

  Growing Up, War, Heart

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think that teachers have the hardest job in the world, and they are the most unsung heroes so much of the time.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Jobs, Hero, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think every single one of us can think back on the key individuals in our lives who really made a difference, and also maybe some of those who sent us astray. There are those are the teachers who are brave enough to buck the system, and obviously not in such a way that jeopardizes their jobs, but brave enough to say, "I know I have to accomplish that, but I want to know how I'm going to help this child get there differently. I want to know what makes this child tick, and I want to help him get there from a place of curiosity, rather than from a place where I impose my ideas on him."

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Jobs, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There are hundreds and thousands of young Americans who cannot or will not receive an education, because in order to get an education, you have to spend money. Students come out of college and universities with unbelievable debt. It's not right, it's not fair, and it's not just, in a society such as ours. And those dollars are not going to the teachers.

  John Lewis

  College, Order, Dollars

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!

  John Lewis

  Believe, School, College

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If you see a child with autistic-like behaviors at age two and three, the worst thing you can do is just let them sit and watch TV all day. That's just the worst thing you can do. You need to have a teacher working with that child, working on teaching language, working on social interaction, working on getting them interested in different things, and keeping their brain connected to the world.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Teaching, Two

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what to expect. You have to find skilled mentors to teach them things. For me, it was an aunt, and it was my science teacher. You need to find the things they're interested in and good at and expand on this.

  Temple Grandin

  Kids, Aunt, Mentor

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If you have a 2-year-old who is non-verbal, don't wait until you get a diagnosis at 4. The child needs one-on-one teaching with an effective teacher now. This can be a grandmother or a teacher or someone from the community. Grandmothers are especially great. There are a lot of grannies around. Go to your church for help.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Teaching, Grandmother

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Mean, Hands

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in every matter but in spiritual matters, to a spiritual teacher is in a sense a lower level of surrendering one's will to God.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Machines, Levels

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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