Top 1200 Geography Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.

No one in tech has ever been as sexist toward me as teachers and rabbis before I was 12 years old.

Teachers who help to open young minds perform a duty which is as near sacred as I will admit.

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

This planet is a divine school, and daily life a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn.

We're not trying to be the only route into teaching. We do put enormous energy into understanding what differentiates the most successful teachers.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.

A really large number of teachers contact us offline testifying how valuable iPads are for their students.

Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

I didn't do very well at school - teachers picked on me, I'm sure of it - and I'd stay out all hours of the night with my mates.

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school.

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

I love and care about literature, and great writers are our teachers. You're studying their mind when you read their work.

The world I grew up in had both a literal and mythological quality. We were on the borders of several worlds - the larger black world bordered us on one side. More distantly, there was the larger white world. We interacted with some, but not others. If you think of it as an internal geography, it is a land, a contested space with these very charged historical, cultural, and emotional borders.

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.

Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan served this country well, he did not celebrate his birthday, he celebrated it for teachers.

I felt intimidated the entire time I was in school by my teachers and classmates. But I just knew acting was something I wanted to do.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

Never mind the cream; it will always rise to the top. It's the skim milk that needs good teachers.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

As a practicing Jew, I have studied with Christian teachers whom I respect for who they are and what they are, including their positive concern with Jews and Judaism.

Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work.

When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.

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.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

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

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Kerala is doing well because here the kids are encouraged to compete in sports, both by parents and teachers in schools.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.

Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

Most teachers in America could dramatically improve their teaching if they just made every second count.

I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.

I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true.

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Anybody who puts a book into someone else's hands inspires me - teachers, librarians, booksellers, parents.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.

The teachers told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I was a bad kid. But I knew I could still hoop.

It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.

I think that education is something - it takes place in the classroom. It's all up to that teacher. We should be respecting and rewarding teachers.

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.