Top 1200 Geography Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I knew I wanted to engage in the world of the imagination, but it was not economically feasible for me to study acting, so I went to a teachers' training college.

Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education lightly.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.

Alberta funds almost all its schools and districts to design and evaluate their own innovations. Teachers are the drivers of change, not the driven.

"You know, Mouse," Tabby said, "a brilliant cat like me should have smart friends; people who can count to more than four." "I can count to more than four," answered Mouse, very offended. "And I can do hard sums, and I know geography and history, and I can knit and ..."

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

As governor, I'll focus every day on delivering for working Kentuckians like teachers and first responders all across the commonwealth.

I was always part of the end-of-term review at school. We would mercilessly mock any slight weakness in the teachers.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

Books and teachers are always "right", and we learn only from them, not from any other resource in the room, such as our friends.

In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

It's important for teenagers, young adults, parents, teachers, really everyone to see what the true High School experience is.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

I do remember a lot of teachers saying I would do well on TV, as I have a 'modern look,' but I never knew how to take that.

Playing the piano was what I loved doing for myself, but as soon as it became a 'thing' that I was being pushed to pursue by my teachers, I rebelled.

Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves.

We believe in a single fundamental idea that describes better than most textbooks and any speech that I could write what a proper government should be: the idea of family, mutuality, the sharing of benefits and burdens for the good of all, feeling one another's pain, sharing one another's blessings — reasonably, honestly, fairly, without respect to race, or sex, or geography, or political affiliation.

With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

Our teachers are good people and they work hard, but we are losing them to other states due to low pay.

I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.

If I was running a British School of classical music I'd employ Tai Chi teachers to help the conductors at the end of their lessons.

I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.

One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.

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.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years.

I learned to fly planes at fifteen years old because one of my teachers thought I'd be a better pilot than rapper.

The disgraces I suffer should be attributed to me, but the praises that I get go to my family and teachers. It is they who decided what I would become.

Some teachers are extremely inaccessible. They feel their teachings are for very few so they make it intentionally hard to get to themselves.

Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.

I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!

Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

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.

Within a single school, teachers often encounter differences in poverty levels, parent involvement, and student readiness.

If all the Legislature wants to do is turn their back on students and teachers then West Virginia will stay stuck at the bottom.

I want to pay tribute to the teachers who, during my life at school in the public education system, saw something in me and encouraged it.

You've got to make sure that you don't overstep your boundaries with teachers, especially when it's report card day or when you're about to take a test.

First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers.

Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.

I do believe that everyone growing up faces differential opportunities. With me, it was books and travel and some good teachers.

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;--and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

With a project like 'Teachers Lounge,' you're wearing a lot of hats, so it demands hard work and focus if you want to do it right.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

I've got friends who are nurses and teachers. They're making a difference. I'm like, 'Sorry I'm so stressed - I'm working on a character and my wig hasn't arrived.'