Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.


Sylvia Plath

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In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there w...
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ELMER GABBARD
We once considered opening a teachers' store. But our personal faith experiences brought us to this.
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That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
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The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art...
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I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through prop...
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They taught me different was wrong.
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Early registration not only provides smooth transition into the schools but helps us to find highly ...
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I think it is important for us as teachers to offer a huge spread of courses from Plato, the deadest...
WILLIAM SCOTT
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in...
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The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and tea...
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen
PHILIP WYLIE
I think, generally, it's great news for us as a school system. All of the credit goes to our classro...
CLAYTON WILCOX
There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac...
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The teachers, principal, counselors - they made it their business to teach us what we would need to ...
DERRICK JACKSON
They're not letting us see all the information. If everything is in that bad of shape, then why give...
DIANE SNURE
Most of our teachers were white, and the songs that they taught us were white, so when we first star...
CLARENCE FOUNTAIN
I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.
GINA RAIMONDO
Teachers knew every one of the students, their secrets, their grades, their home situations. And all...
VICTORIA KAHLER
My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.
HUGO CHAVEZ
Teachers have the utmost respect for the law and judiciary. However, teachers voted 90.5 per cent to...
JINNY SIMS
I had many good teachers, but only three of them were school teachers.
MICHAEL LEUNIG
It's practical common-sense stuff that's making us successful. Our teachers don't have to spend half...
DR. HUEY MILLS
These higher than state average settlements are an attempt to catch us up with those surrounding dis...
DUANE VAN GORP
Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE...
SEBASTIAN COE
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pu...
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If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is...
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What better way than to bring teachers to Japan, give them experiences interacting with students and...
JAN JENSEN
If kids come to us [educators / teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our jo...
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In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to ...
LEE IACOCCA
Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
According to Plato, we don't learn anything. Our soul has lived so many lives that we know everythin...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
When teachers get together they can trade ideas, blow off steam and generally get better connected w...
DEAN TURNER
We really have some excellent teachers.
KATHRYNE BOROUGHS
The best teachers have shown me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything ...
JOSEPH BRUCHAC
Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cr...
JULIA GLASS
Change starts within each and every one of us. We are teachers of love.
AVINA CELESTE
The entire school is mailing to each other. Teachers to students, students to teachers, students to ...
ANGI BRUNNEY
The teachers will work out how to help the individuals with problems. It gets the teachers together ...
BOB FREEHAN
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.
JOHN BRADSHAW
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
JOHN BRADSHAW
We have so many things that we must do (in school) that are mandated by the federal government. We n...
DANITA RICKARD
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to ma...
DAVID E. KELLEY
I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and...
ELLEN OCHOA
Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and infl...
MIKE GALLAGHER
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
As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and ...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD
If you think about it, all of us have one or more teachers who were instrumental.
CAMILA ALVES
The professors must not prevent us from realizing that history is fun, and that the most bizarre thi...
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student ne...
GARY LARSON
Once you start asking public school teachers to instruct on matters of religion in science classes, ...
DAN GELBER
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of p...
ANDY ROONEY
LIFE and TIME are the world's best teachers.
LIFE teaches us to make good use of TIME and TIME ...
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The more connections students make with teachers and administrators, the better environment a school...
DAVID MINSKER
We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded r...
WALKER STAPLETON
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
On a Monday, they have church and the teachers speak to us and tell us that Christianity is not a jo...
ELTON WILLIAMS
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manuf...
SIMONE WEIL
I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they ...
MARSHA BLACKBURN
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and ...
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI
To know how to suggest is the art of teaching
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
The AIMS teachers have experience with a middle-school schedule, and we're thankful for their help.
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We get teachers who either live here or they want to stay in this area. There is no way we're going ...
MICHAEL GREEN
What the teachers understand, students never understand and in the paper what we want them to unders...
HIMMILICIOUS
It's a new school, and I know some of the teachers, so I feel comfortable with the change.
KIMBERLY SMITH
He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, bec...
CHARLES COLES
Some teachers just have a knack for working with autistic children. Other teachers do not have it.
TEMPLE GRANDIN
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.
JOHN BRADSHAW
In general, I tend to favor teachers over school boards in conflicts. Not that teachers are always r...
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In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have ...
GAYLORD NELSON
We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and ...
AZIM PREMJI
Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising...
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Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an ...
PETER F. DRUCKER
The best teachers impart knowledge through sleight of hand, like a magician.
KATE BETTS
When I was a young person, it was easy to argue that teachers are not well paid. I don't think the p...
HENRY SCHEIER
I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.
ADAM GARCIA
They are teachers who train teachers.
CINDY SULHAM
The FAME teachers are by far the most talented individuals that I have ever worked with. Their enthu...
BRIGITTE DONLON
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and histo...
ADAM HAMILTON
Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and...
MONICA JOHNSON
For some of the newer teachers, the transition is natural. But ... some of the other teachers, who m...
ANDY NELSON
The teachers and staff work on a lot of collaboration to help students be successful. Without the mi...
JOHN BARRY
The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human ...
A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM
We're getting more and more [high school teachers] asking about that all the time.
VIRGINIA BOWERMAN
My number one priority is to try to get the summer school staffed with the best possible teachers.
FRED BUTCHER
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provid...
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
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I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
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I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die...
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How we need another soul to cling to.
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I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no m...
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I woke to the sound of rain.
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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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Ennui

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I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into ...
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life...
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How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
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There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
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I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make...
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I think I may well be a Jew.
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With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is li...
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s he...
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There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu...
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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de...
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The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther...
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I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too clo...
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I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
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But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn...
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I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
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I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
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That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite secu...
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To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
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When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photogr...
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The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ...
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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ...
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My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ...
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I Am Vertical

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the ...
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The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
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What did my arms do before they held you?
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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
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Is anyone anywhere happy?
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I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea...
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I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...
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What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.
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You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...
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It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
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Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ...
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Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m...
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