Top 1200 Geography Teachers Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When I'm traveling the world, I don't ever look anymore at the geography - just enough to catch galleries and paintings.

Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.

There is a geography which holds its hands just so far from the breast and pushes you away, crying so.

George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words.

Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

My country is a country of teachers. It is therefore a country of peace. We discuss our successes and failures in complete freedom. Because our country is a country of teachers, we closed the army camps, and our children go about with books under their arms, not with rifles on their shoulders. We believe in dialogue, in agreement, in reaching a consensus.

Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.

People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.

Over the years, I've worked for and alongside the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. That's because I am proud of our public school teachers - including my niece who teaches down in Louisiana - just as I am proud of our nation's education system.

Geography was my best subject but that was only because of the game 'Carmen Sandiego.' I chased her all over the world.

I play along with 'Pointless' and I love 'The Chase.' I'm not bad either - geography, biology and history are my strong points.

As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

Students generally have very little idea of the world they are entering into, and their teachers - like parents - are viewed as beings who alternately guide and admonish; rarely are those teachers viewed as individuals or is their professional standing considered. It is usually only afterward, when young people encounter real-life situations in their chosen professions that they sometimes learn (if they are lucky) that they studied with one of the greats.

I feel that if I had not had an art program in my school, I would have failed in a big way. My teachers knew I was intelligent, but they didn't quite know how I was ever going to apply that intelligence. The one or two teachers who knew me well knew that it would be through drawing or acting or whatever means of expression I was allowed.

Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful places.

Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!

Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.

I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the best teachers out of their schools (by over-emphasising test prep in the school curriculum for example). On the other hand, great teachers want benchmarks to measure progress and tests can help with that.

I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas.

Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

Characters, conflict and geography are things that must be considered while making movies from adaptations.

Doing makeup, especially for drag, is all about being aware of the geography and angles of your face.

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially.

Classroom teachers can play an active role in instructing children about appropriate conduct online, even where there is no school policy on the issue. By promoting public discussion about their lives on the Internet, teachers and students can work together to share advice and develop 'rules to type by' or similar Internet-minded guidance.

While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary.

There are few master teachers in life. ... But there are many who can listen to life so well that they can hear the vastness in everything and in you. A teacher is someone who has learned to listen to life. Someone who has found a way to listen well. Any real teacher is only a finger pointing. In the end, we may find out more by not following our teachers but by following what our teachers follow for themselves. From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secrets of life. You will have to listen for yourself.

Some teachers, the less effective ones, thought that fair meant distributing instruction equally to all students regardless of their needs. The exemplary teachers we studied, however thought fair meant working in ways that evened out differences between students

My ex-husband has been one of my best teachers, and I believe that the areas of our life and the people in our lives that present the most problems to us - they really are our best teachers. They're teaching us lessons that we have to learn anyway, and if we don't accept the lesson from them, there will just be another teacher to step in and take their place.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues.

I tell adults about the experiences of more than a hundred teachers I've interviewed. They tell me that allowing the child to help them learn helped them become better teachers. That's because they no longer had to pretend they were the experts - not only about computers but about other things.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

What I want to see in teacher training is more talk about character education and getting teachers to really think about it. We have been careful not to define what we mean by character but we think the best schools and the best teachers know how they build strong, resilient young people.

Geography prepares for the world of work - geographers, with their skills of analysis are highly employable!

If you're afraid to talk to the other adults in your school it is definitely throughout history the hallmark of a failing school. When I was writing about the teachers' strike in New York City in 1968, the middle school where events triggered that strike was a place where teachers were known to hide in their classrooms.

..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.

My first kiss was in the geography room, where you put all the maps. I actually don't know how to say it in English.

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.

I'd met so many enlightened spiritual teachers that it became a challenge to select one. I believed in the oneness of spirituality - unconditional love for God, and unconditional compassion for the beings of this world - but I also understood that unless I chose a particular path, I couldn't focus and take blessings from teachers that would allow me to have deep realizations and spiritual experiences.

The peculiar value of geography lies in its fitness to nourish the mind with ideas and furnish the imagination with pictures.

We didn't educate women, because the leaders then didn't think they were educable. That changed when a shortage of teachers developed, because men didn't get paid enough to teach school. Then men, who held the positions of power, sent women to teachers' colleges.

GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

You know, we live here in America and sometimes don't understand the realities of geography and demographics in Eastern Europe.

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.