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On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice. -- Andy Hargreaves
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. -- Woody Allen
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. -- Gordon Bell
Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that. -- Solomon Ortiz
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. -- Bob Beauprez
The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade. -- David Price
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. -- Sue Kelly
I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science. -- Bernard Beckett
I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. -- Loni Anderson
There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher. -- David Puttnam
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education. -- Lorraine Toussaint
I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager. -- Jenny Eclair
Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need. -- Christopher Bond
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. -- Solomon Ortiz
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system. -- Sidney Hook
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. -- Paulo Freire
My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work. -- Mark Mothersbaugh
If we had in this room a hundred teachers, good teachers from good schools, and asked them to define the word education, there would be very little general agreement. -- William Glasser
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education. -- Tony Danza
President Obama and Secretary Duncan have made stronger teacher evaluation a key part of their education reform efforts. Under their signature plan, called 'Race to the Top,' states can win federal support for schools by improving teacher evaluations. -- Juan Williams
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment. -- Maria Montessori
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. -- Abraham Maslow
A good special education teacher is hard to find and even harder to hang on to. -- Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
Education is what you learn in books, and nobody knows you know it but your teacher. -- Virginia Cary Hudson
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education. -- Laurence Housman
An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. -- Nick Cave
It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter. -- Wendy Kopp
It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education." -- Peter Hilton
Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education. -- Nicky Gumbel
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics. -- Dennis Quaid
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. -- Maria Montessori
Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. -- Paulo Freire
Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher. -- Peter Agre
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores. -- Raheem Jarbo
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher. -- Herbert Spencer
The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men. -- Samuel Smiles
The most important thing about a child's education is to have a great teacher in front of the classroom and a lot of choice and accountability with parents. -- Carly Fiorina
My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently. -- Aaron Levie
Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings. -- Amit Ray
This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth. -- William Glasser
A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. -- Swami Vivekananda
My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics. -- Sloane Crosley
It is my expectation that Teacher Education for Democracy and Social Justice will become a rich resource for continuing this multi-layered conversation-from democratic belief to democratic action-that is the hallmark of educational renewal. -- John Goodlad

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