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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. -- C. S. Lewis
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press. -- Ida B. Wells
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. -- Maria Montessori
The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present. -- Ellen Key
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power. -- Alfred Adler
A true Educator locates the intelligence and abilities within another, drawing them out for all, even the student, to see. And then steps out of the way, allowing them to develop, create and pursue their talent. -- L. Ron Hubbard
I see myself as an educator. -- Anita Hill
I am an educator who thinks globally. -- Paulo Freire
I learned that unemployment can be the great educator. -- David Caruso
Education is too important to be left solely to educators. -- Francis Keppel
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -- Thomas Huxley
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves -- Joseph Campbell
To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. -- Maria Montessori
In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator. -- Tim Gunn
The child is truly a miraculous being, and this should be felt deeply by the educator. -- Maria Montessori
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. -- John C. Maxwell
As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all. -- James D. Watson
If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness. -- Derek Bok
Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator. -- Anthony Kiedis
As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people. -- Ben Bernanke
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools. -- Diane Ravitch
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. -- Leo Buscaglia
There is no profession more essential than that of an educator, and it's time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution to America's children. -- Queen Latifah
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to adapt to the world of oppression. -- Paulo Freire
As a doctor, an educator, an innovator and someone who has dedicated his professional career to making things work better and to helping people - I am ready to lead. -- Donald Berwick
It is not enough to simply listen to student voice. Educators have an ethical imperative to do something with students, and that is why meaningful student involvement is vital to school improvement. -- Adam Fletcher
As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students. -- Godfrey Reggio
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness. -- David W. Orr
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener. -- Jeff Kinney
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. -- Christa McAuliffe
I always try to get people a different outlook. When you do that, people take ownership of the information. They don't ever have to reference me because, I'd like to believe as an educator, I'm empowering them to have those thoughts themselves. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things. -- Jeff Kinney
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You've never seen me debate anybody. On anything. Ever. My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another. What the laws of physics say. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker. -- Garry Hynes
We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way. -- Henry Miller
I'm not an educator ... I'm a learner. -- Bill Gates
The educator has the duty of not being neutral. -- Paulo Freire
Adversity is a better educator than the best teacher. -- Debasish Mridha
An educator will teach the students. An Educarer will reach the students. -- Tanya R. Liverman
The best gift an educator can give, to get somebody to become self-reflective. -- Randy Pausch
The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age. -- Georg Brandes
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. -- Lerone Bennett, Jr.
The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator. -- John Osborne
One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible. -- Sarah Kay
Travel's the great educator, especially for the girls. You can't put a value on it. -- Laird Hamilton
An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself. -- Jill Telford
I'm still useful in my capacity as an arts educator and caretaker for the stray dogs. -- Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet. -- Peter Diamandis
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. -- Bruce Lee
Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions. -- Utah Phillips
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important. -- David Elliott
As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator. -- Debasish Mridha
This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop. -- Maria Montessori
Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up! -- Kathy Ireland
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It has been well said that an effective leader must know the meaning and master the technique of the educator. -- Philip Selznick
I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods. -- John Shirley
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene. -- Fred W. Friendly
The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge. -- Michel Foucault
Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher. -- Rudolf Steiner
An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. -- Trey Parker
Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator. -- Henry A. Kissinger
To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society. -- Sol Stern
A jazz musician is a combination orator, dialectician, mathematician, athlete, entertainer, poet, singer, dancer, diplomat, educator, student, comedian, artist, seducer, public masturbator, and general all-round good fellow. -- Steve Lacy
The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.' -- Paulo Freire
The educator should do anything but advise the child to do what everybody does. He should rather rejoice when he sees in the child tendencies to deviation. -- Ellen Key
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions. -- Saul Steinberg
Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate. -- Tommy Amaker
I see bright kids trapped in public schools that are just warehousing them. As an educator this makes me scared. As Secretary of State, this makes me terrified. -- Maria Shriver
An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. -- Anthony Standen
The normal school should provide for the training of the educator to make him realize that his is a twofold job: education as a teacher and education as a propagandist. -- Edward Bernays
Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education. -- Claire McCaskill
The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of the young being and respect it. -- Maria Montessori
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Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. -- Russell Baker
Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life. -- Gore Vidal
I'm on a Mission, that niggaz say is Impossible, But when I swing my swords they all choppable, I be the body dropper, the heartbeat stopper, Child educator, plus head amputator. -- GZA
Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator. -- Carl Jung
Honestly, I don't know if I'd want to be an educator. I find teachers to have more responsibility, in a way, than being a parent. You're molding hundreds of minds every year. -- Eva Amurri
As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
A balanced education consists of knowledge in the mind, honesty in the heart, and strength in the body ... a true human being is an educator not by words alone but by being an example. -- Jhoon Goo Rhee
As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children. -- Alma Adams
As I've gotten older, my mannerisms are more and more like my mom's. Also, she was an educator - she's extremely passionate about education and children. I guess I inherited that in some way. -- Jenna Bush
The role of the problem-posing educator is to create, together with the students, the conditions under which knowledge at the level of the doxa is superseded by true knowledge, at the level of the logos. -- Paulo Freire
A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator -- Charlotte Mason

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