Top 1200 Teachers Unions Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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.

Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this approach takes monopolistic capitalism for granted, and accepts the unnatural division between property and responsibility as permanent. A much more radical solution is apt to come, and this may take either of two forms.

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

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

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

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

There were two writer's unions in those days[ during World War II ] , the studio-friendly guild called the Screen Playwrights, and the more activist Writer's Guild. The studios were fairly upset that their group wasn't effective, and they sought to punish the other union by labeling them as Communists.

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

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

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

I had some pretty good teachers. I learned how to play the game the right way.

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.

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

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

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.

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

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

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

We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials.

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

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

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

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

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

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.

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

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

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.

Cruces is like my town, where I grew up, where my heart is... All the teachers and coaches and people who have really influenced my life are from there.

The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a 'money illusion' among workers, i.e., on the belief that while, through unions and government, they will keep money wage rates from falling, they will also accept a fall in real wage rates via higher prices.

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

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

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

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

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

Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.

The fruits of the economy and all the advantages of technology and globalization have gone far more to the investor class and the professional class and not as much to the working class. Partly because of the loss of labor unions, partly because of things like a lack of antitrust enforcement, policies that have privileged shareholder returns.

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.

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

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