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HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The money helps support the Building Bridges Foundation, camps and after-school programs.
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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and tea...
RICHARD BACH That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
MARIA CALLAS Teaching of others teacheth the teacher
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LOLA MAY Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all...
VICTORIA KAHLER We had teachers, we had high school principals, we had people teaching in colleges and university in...
JOHN LEWIS To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
SASHA AZEVEDO Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.
CHINESE PROVERBS If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
IGNACIO ESTRADA The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The gre...
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal cou...
DR. WILLIAM MENNINGER The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the ...
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not forma...
ELLIOT EISNER Most teachers - most people - feel their elected officials take care of that. That's their business,...
LORI ALLEN Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ...
PETER F. DRUCKER The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art...
JEFF WAHL A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young wh...
EMILE CAPOUYA Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency...
TOM DEMARCO The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen
PHILIP WYLIE To know how to suggest is the art of teaching
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpilla...
BRADLEY MILLAR Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to a...
RANDI WEINGARTEN I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classr...
RAE CARSON Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich. Color does not necessarily den...
HARRY BELAFONTE I think the classrooms suffer with half-time teachers.
DOYLENE FUQUA I have repeatedly called for residency programs for teachers, like those you see in the medical prof...
RANDI WEINGARTEN My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies...
JUDY WOODRUFF attract talented, well-prepared teachers into our classrooms.
AMY WEISS When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the ele...
SYLVESTER STALLONE It's a trend throughout the state going from U-19 programs into high school hockey programs.
BOB MANDOLI We don't have high school graduates teaching our kids.
IVY LEE Without the club, most would go home or out in their neighborhoods. Our quality after-school program...
MARGIE DORSHORST So many of our gyms are dark after school. The police say the worst time when kids find trouble is t...
KAREN PITRE You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.
ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Being around people like Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack. . . had a...
WHITNEY HOUSTON I've got a good man. He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he wi...
WHITNEY HOUSTON I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do w...
WHITNEY HOUSTON A teacher is better than two books
GERMAN PROVERB Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself
ITALIAN PROVERB The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything ...
JOSEPH BRUCHAC There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and t...
LOLA MAY Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime
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DAVID MCFADDEN Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and earl...
JUDY BIGGERT These are areas that we have to recruit harder and act faster. We may get a whole lot of third-grade...
KRIS TAYLOR We're getting more and more [high school teachers] asking about that all the time.
VIRGINIA BOWERMAN Money buys you things, love buys you happiness.
JIM GENOVESE The FSA tests are beginning to affect teaching and learning in a bad way. Because those tests are us...
JINNY SIMS High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
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WALT DISNEY Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at time...
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ED FULLER A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
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SYDNEY J. HARRIS It's a critical problem. One of the issues we're really going to have to deal with is, where do we f...
BILL BUSH I think we're on the right track. We can now finally have classrooms at the schools, where we can co...
CAROL HUFFMAN I think we're on the right track. We can now finally have classrooms at the schools, where we can co...
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO It's really unfair to our young teachers and discouraging them from entering the profession, particu...
BARRY WILSON History is philosophy teaching by example.
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JUDY GARLAND The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels h...
BERTRAND RUSSELL To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without, being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps t...
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ROBERT KENNEDY No one needs to tell me about the importance of the free press in a democratic society or about the ...
ROBERT KENNEDY I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system ...
ROBERT KENNEDY One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely bec...
ROBERT KENNEDY Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
ROBERT HALF Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that th...
ROBERT KENNEDY Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
ROBERT KENNEDY When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest busi...
ROBERT KENNEDY The eradication of racial and religious prejudice in the United States - and in the rest of the worl...
ROBERT KENNEDY Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good eno...
ROBERT KENNEDY I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive...
ROBERT KENNEDY In the last analysis, our every right is only worth what our lawyer makes it worth.
ROBERT KENNEDY The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. ...
ROBERT KENNEDY