Teachers need our active support and encouragement. They are doing one of the most necessary and exacting jobs in the land. They are developing our m….

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking..

What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children'….

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used ….

If I waited to be in the mood to write, I'd barely have a chapbook of material to my name. Who would ever be in the mood to write? Do marathon runner….

If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing ….

When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just liste….

I start a picture and I finish it..

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you..

The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is….

Definitely we see throughout history that American teachers are asked to be very self-abnegating. They're not supposed to be concerned with the condi….

Faith engenders courage; and also requires it..

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe h….

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others..

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play t….

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look,….

There's a small movement of teacher-led schools across the country. These are schools that don't have a traditional principal, teachers come together….

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a ….

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a qu….

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because ….

When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and it does date back to this nine….