I miss my former teachers, John Hersey and James Alan McPherson. I would love to see either or both and ask what I could do to improve, to deepen my writing.
Eileen Pollack
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I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
Doug Collins
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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.
Wendy Kopp
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If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want to stop it, we have to stop it.
Chris Crutcher
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We owe our public servants, from school teachers to state employees, a sustainable and well-funded retirement that they can count on.
Walker Stapleton
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Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.
Conrad Black
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The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher-God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher-God complex.
Taylor Mali
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Common sense tells us that we should focus our resources to benefit children, teachers and taxpayers by keeping dollars in the classroom.
Bob Beauprez
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At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.
Ralph Allen
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Good teachers have joined Presidency from different parts of the country and even abroad. We have got idealistic teachers, and we are relying on their idealism. But state universities pay their teachers less than the central ones. If salary is not on a par with central institutes, teachers would tend to leave for those places.
Ashoke Sen
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Preventing children from going to school, and preventing teachers from doing their jobs, seems to be not just undemocratic but intolerable.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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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.
William Glasser
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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
Mackenzie Astin
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I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2,000 people.
Petra Nemcova
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When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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The teachers I know are extremely dedicated people.
Sebastian Thrun
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
Florence Henderson
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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.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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Voters have demonstrated time and again that candidates who buck the teachers' union are rewarded.
Campbell Brown
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Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.
Martin Landau
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I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me.
Lyle Lovett
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I've harassed pediatricians and nurses, demanded extra conferences with preschool teachers, contacted speech therapists and occupational therapists over delays other mothers probably wouldn't have noticed, stressed over magnet school applications three years before they're due.
Kim Brooks
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What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
Joe Paterno
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