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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

I have to be a teacher to my daughters.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations.

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life.

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.