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- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are far too many ineffective teachers and, in particular, far too many truly terrible teachers who are harming children and poisoning the system.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.
- Off
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I loved to draw, and I was lucky because I had parents and teachers and grown-ups around who recognised and encouraged that.
- Ministers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Speaker of the North Carolina House, I've proven I'm a problem-solver, balancing budgets, cutting wasteful spending, and providing teachers with historic pay raises.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.
- Ideology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great teachers transcend ideology.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers are not supposed to be repositories of information which they dish out. That is from an age when there were no other repositories of information, other than books or teachers, neither of which were portable. A lot of my big task is retraining these teachers.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a daydreamer. Teachers kept telling me to pay attention.
- Materials
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor unpatriotic. They are, however, secured creditors of Chrysler. They deserve to have their funds protected under the full auspices of the law.
- Defense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel's defense.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that's actually delaying the development of literacy.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
- Nov 07, 2020
Students and teachers should be sensitive towards the themes of empowerment of the marginalised.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why can't teachers end up owning schools, the way waiters can open their own restaurants?
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
- Greater
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite sayings is, 'Much have I learned from my teachers, but even more from my friends and even more from my students.'
- Deaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with deaf teachers, and I thought all deaf children should have exposure to deaf educators.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a weirdo to want to be in show business. Most kids wanted to be teachers or nurses.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
- Potential
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.
- Clarity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
- Boundaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.
- Good Jobs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
- Great Teachers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great teachers should be rewarded.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.
- Technology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting to play a yogic healer was awesome. I love yoga, so I've had a lot of teachers.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
- Firing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should be firing bad teachers.
- Proportion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prince Paul's one of my teachers. He's always been one of my main inspirations as far as interludes go and getting a little quirky at times.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the oldest of four children, and when I was young, I used to get the blackboard out and make my brothers and sisters sit in front of me while I taught class. They all thought I wanted to be a teacher, but I didn't. I was impersonating my teachers.
- Nov 07, 2020
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
If mothers are our first teachers, then having a narcissistic one teaches us that human closeness is terrifying, and the world is a heartless, inconsistent place.
- Lipstick
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- Nov 07, 2020