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  • Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches. -- Randy Pausch
  • 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
  • Educators have yet to realize how deeply the industrial system is dependent upon them. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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  • Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it. -- Johan Huizinga
  • Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism. -- John Goodlad
  • 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
  • Educators committed to engaging in the long-term, often difficult work of strengthening their relationships with colleagues, students and parents and expanding their opportunities for personal growth will find Nonviolent Communication to be an invaluable tool. -- Ron Rubin
  • Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much. -- Daniel Greenberg
  • What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families. -- Joe Paterno
  • Work is one of the best educators of practical character. -- Samuel Smiles
  • Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
  • To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators. -- Tony Campolo
  • I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. -- Margaret Spellings
  • At the end of the day, I think the more online educators there are, I think the better off the whole world is. -- Anant Agarwal
  • The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. -- Catharine Beecher
  • 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
  • Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States. -- Jonathan Kozol
  • 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
  • Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship. -- Neil Postman
  • So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • We are fortunate to live an area that is blessed with outstanding schools and educators. We are proud of the quality of education that they provide to local students. -- Kenny Marchant
  • Without there being some national strategy, it is difficult for educators to know what kinds of engineers or technicians to produce and for potential students to know what professions to study for. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity. -- Adam Savage
  • Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive. -- Chris Crutcher
  • Month after month, Wizard Academy equips people who want to make a difference. This is why journalists and scientists and artists and educators and business owners and advertising professionals and ministers are attracted to our little school. -- Roy H. Williams
  • One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best. -- Ricardo Semler
  • We must not fail to recognise that television can be a hugely positive influence in children's lives, one of the greatest educators in contemporary society and an increasing influence on all the children followed in 'Child of Our Time.' -- Robert Winston
  • Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes? -- Heidi Hayes Jacobs
  • I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is. -- David Miliband
  • When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It's the same with the Internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table - users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations. -- Chris DeWolfe
  • The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential. -- Wendy Kopp
  • Love is the greatest of educators. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
  • Your educators can only be your liberators. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Some of the world's best educators are grandparents. -- Charlie W Shedd
  • We educators stand at a special point in time -- Robert J. Marzano
  • Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning. -- Dave Carter
  • Enlightening editorial writers is even more difficult than educating educators. -- Malcolm Forbes
  • Education is too important to be left solely to educators. -- Francis Keppel
  • Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well. -- Lynne Cheney
  • Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down. -- James H. Boren
  • As educators we need to understand that there is no finish line in our work. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • My advice to educators is collaborate with parents; they know a lot about their kids. -- Ross W. Greene
  • Stan Slaughter is the thoroughbred of the environmental educators I've hired. Second place is not even close. -- Mike Patton
  • In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. -- Bryant H. McGill
  • Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity. -- Samuel Smiles
  • The courts are merely a ruse, if you will, for humanist, atheistic educators to beat up on Christians. -- Pat Robertson
  • Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators. -- George Leonard
  • My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. -- Edwin Moses
  • We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system. -- Erin Cummings
  • We as educators need to reconsider our roles in students' lives, to think of ourselves as connectors first and content experts second. -- Will Richardson
  • The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times. -- Dorothea Dix
  • We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. -- Henry Miller
  • We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment. -- Laura Bush
  • If there is one thing educators can agree on, it's this: children do better in school when their parents get involved in their learning. -- William Bennett
  • The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity. -- Tim LaHaye
  • So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. -- Robert Muller
  • 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
  • The best educators I have met never stop asking questions. Some of them have taught for forty years and continue to be energized by new possibilities. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance. -- Guy Claxton
  • How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life? -- Warren Bennis
  • It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units. -- David Almond
  • Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings, but politicians just want economic units. -- David Almond
  • I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be. -- Joshua Foer
  • Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • 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
  • That education is the most important of all professions is a message the public should hear and understand. And, as importantly, a message that our educators need to hear as well. -- Lowell Milken
  • There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved. -- Kurt Squire
  • Parents deserve the peace of mind of knowing their children are in good hands. By investing in early childhood educators, we are supporting nurturing child care environments where children can thrive. -- Kathleen Wynne
  • 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
  • When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike. -- Larry R. Thompson
  • We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten. -- Gloria Steinem
  • What radical constructivism may suggest to educators is this: the art of teaching has little to do with the traffic of knowledge, its fundamental purpose must be to foster the art of learning. -- Ernst von Glasersfeld
  • It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games' a double mantle of critical praise and global bestsellerdom. -- Kenneth Oppel
  • Indeed art is fundamental : to science, mathematics and to language. Unfortunately theorists, educators, parents and administrators have not fully understood its importance, relegating it to a secondary role, or that of an add on. -- John A. Hiigli
  • Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it. -- Neil Postman
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