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Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs. -- Robert Reich
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture. -- Michael Gove
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. -- Beverly Cleary
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields. -- Michael Bennet
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded. -- Michael Bennet
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. -- James S. Coleman
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. -- Alice Walker
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement. -- Alan Bennett
I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. -- David Eddings
Most teachers still say they love teaching though they wouldn't mind a little more respect for their challenging work and a little less blame for America's educational shortcomings. -- Arne Duncan
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching. -- Joanne Harris
I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing. -- F. Sionil Jose
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself. -- John Jay Chapman
Teacher compensation isn't the only factor in cultivating great teaching. Other important priorities include changing how we measure student performance, providing more flexibility to teacher-preparation programs, and improving how we train and support principals. -- Michael Bennet
Parents should be encouraged to read to their children, and teachers should be equipped with all available techniques for teaching literacy, so the varying needs and capacities of individual kids can be taken into account. -- Hugh Mackay
Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money. -- Jesse L. Martin
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class. -- Richard Dreyfuss
The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems. -- Richard P. Feynman
If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary. -- Laurieann Gibson
True teaching liberates the student from his teacher. -- Ernest Holmes
I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching. -- Chelsea Clinton
The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher. -- Steve Perry
SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANGURGANI: The teacher and the taught together produce the teaching. -- Idries Shah
Pupils may learn many things when a teacher is not in fact teaching. -- Paul Q. Hirst
A teacher or teaching is not essential for spiritual awakening, but they save time. -- Eckhart Tolle
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time. -- Adyashanti
More important than finding the teacher is finding and following the truth of the teaching.... -- Sogyal Rinpoche
You cannot understand the teacher or their teaching without understanding the person the teacher is. -- Andy Hargreaves
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher. -- Elbert Hubbard
The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived. -- Anne Truitt
A wise teacher learns in the midst of teaching; a wise student teaches in the midst of learning. -- Mollie Marti
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. -- Parker J. Palmer
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm. -- Joyce Cary
At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting. -- Omar Dorsey
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. -- Frederick Lenz
I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs. -- Frederick Lenz
No teacher should be required to accept in a class any individual whose conduct habitually interferes with the teaching of others. -- Jack H. Adamson
Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills. -- Bliss Perry
A very wise old teacher once said: I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh. -- Gilbert Highet
I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom. -- Boris Kodjoe
"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left. -- Eckhart Tolle
Anybody who knows the public school teacher world (knows) there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do. -- Kevin Sorbo
The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher. -- Anne Sullivan Macy
Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much. -- Alice Moore Hubbard
The highest teaching is never written down. It's only communicated from teacher to student because it's a "transmission of the lamp." It's a transmission of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal. -- Jesse Stuart
In enlightenment you have to convince a teacher not only that you are worthy of teaching, but then that they should show you some of the secrets. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching. -- H. W. L. Poonja
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius. -- John H. Vincent
A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching. -- Mark Barnes
At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching. -- Parker J. Palmer
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past... -- Arthur C. Clarke
To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms. -- William Hague

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