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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
Both teachers and students must move ahead together for the nation to progress. -- Narendra Modi
Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue. -- Joseph Stiglitz
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled. -- Solomon Ortiz
Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement. -- James Heckman
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
When I went to a school in Japan, they told me that both the teachers and students perform cleaning tasks here to keep the schools clean. I wondered why can't we do it in India. -- Narendra Modi
Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins. -- Harry Bridges
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Public education for some time has been heavily focused on what curricula we believe will be helpful to students. Life-Enriching Education is based on the premise that the relationship between teachers and students, the relationships of students with one another, and the relationships of students to what they are learning are equally important in preparing students for the future. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
We will not find the solution to problems of violence, alienation, ignorance, and unhappiness in increasing our security, imposing more tests, punishing schools for their failure to produce 100 percent proficiency, or demanding that teachers be knowledgeable in the subjects they teach. Instead, we must allow teachers and students to interact as whole persons, and we must develop policies that treat the school as a whole community. -- Nel Noddings
The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing. -- John Kline
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student. -- Henny Youngman
My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students. -- Jane McGonigal
School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs. -- Eli Broad
Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture. -- Adora Svitak
Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations. -- Bob Beauprez
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. -- Arne Duncan
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher. -- Bill Moyers
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students. -- Solomon Ortiz
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay. -- Jeb Bush
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
I am a teacher born and bred, and I believe in the advocacy of teachers. It's a calling. We want our students to feel impassioned and empowered. -- Erin Gruwell
Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed. -- Monica Johnson
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
I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know - teachers loved me, straight-A student. -- Morgan Fairchild
I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades. -- Tyler Hilton
Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself. -- Sonny Perdue
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
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation. -- Conrad Burns
Teachers learn from their students' discussions -- Rashi
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions -- Diane Ravitch
When teachers stop learning, so do students. -- Jim Knight
I believe that the greatest teachers create thinking students. -- David F. Swensen
When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed. -- Marva Collins
It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better. -- Malcolm Forbes
I did not come to collect students, but to train teachers. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Wise teachers create an environment that encourages students to teach themselves -- Leonard Roy Frank
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. -- Charles Kuralt
We must question why the smartest students don't choose to become teachers. -- Narendra Modi
Teachers are endless Fragrance, which lasts forever in mind of students as Knowledge -- Samar Sudha
Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life. -- Parker J. Palmer
The best teachers coach their students and the best coaches are great teachers. -- Grant Teaff
Great teachers have high expectations for their students, but higher expectations for themselves. -- Todd Whitaker
Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great. -- Bill Gates
The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn. -- Randy Pausch
Teachers who believe they can make a real difference in their students lives REALLY do. -- Andy Hargreaves
I have very little patience for teachers who teach their students things that are wrong. -- Hank Green
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them. -- James W. Loewen
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. -- Sidney Hook
Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much. -- Robert H. Frank
We all have our own karma and so different teachers will be meaningful to different students. -- Tenzin Palmo
Students become good learners when they are in the classes of teachers who are good learners. -- Andy Hargreaves
It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students. -- Igor Babailov
The quality & morale of teachers is absolutely central to the well being of students and their learning. -- Andy Hargreaves
What we want for our students we should want for our teachers: learning, challenge, support, and respect. -- Andy Hargreaves
Through dialogue, the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher cease to exist and a new term emerges: teacher-student with students-teachers. -- Paulo Freire
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. -- Florian Znaniecki
Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students. -- Andy Hargreaves
Good teachers realise that the students are the antenna; they are sensing things that the teachers don't yet sense. -- Brian Eno
There's an assumption that schools are for students' learning. Well, why aren't they just as much for teachers' learning? -- Seymour Sarason
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
When classes are small enough to allow individual student-teacher interaction, a minor miracle occurs: Teachers teach and students learn -- LouAnne Johnson
Education and the process of educating is a total integral, contextual situation which includes students, teachers, parents, administration and environment. -- Jean Houston
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify." -- Kareem Abdul Jabbar
I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students. -- Bill Gates
[Students] are exposed to many things the majority of their teachers didn't encounter until much later in their growing up years. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school. -- Bob Pletka
You have to give kids things they're interested in reading. That's what teachers do who are engaged in what their students want. -- Jenna Bush
Teachers have to respect the privacy of students' creative life, but at the same time give them a chance to express themselves. -- Jan Brett
We are more than role models for our students; we are leaders and teachers of both an academic curriculum and a social curriculum. -- Patricia Sequeira Belvel
One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think. -- Taylor Mali
Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line. -- Raheem Jarbo
I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers. -- Gene Luen Yang
It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate. -- Abe Fortas
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions. -- Stephen Brookfield
[Math] curriculum is obsessed with jargon and nomenclature seemingly for no other purpose than to provide teachers with something to test the students on. -- Paul Lockhart
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less. -- Marva Collins
Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria. -- Richard Brautigan
Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students. -- Lewis M. Branscomb
It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts. -- Paul Halmos
Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it. -- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
In outstanding classrooms, teachers do more listening than talking, and students do more talking than listening. Terrific teachers often have teeth marks on their tongues. -- Alfie Kohn
Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies. -- Keith Henson
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students. -- Patrick Stewart
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. -- Helen Thomas
In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. -- Dave Ramsey
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create theirown. -- Nikos Kazantzakis

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