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Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.
The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.
Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.
What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.
We may not always see eye to eye, but we can try to see heart to heart.
When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
You are the mirror of divine beauty.
The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
Don't agonise, organise.
People who don't count won't count.
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
It is wisdom to know others. It is enlightenment to know oneself.
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