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  • Stop teaching students that they are the best and the brightest. -- David Maister
  • Public schools teaching students to hate America as the left appeases Muslims with "religious literacy training." -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution. -- Jonathan Wells
  • MindSparks has produced some of the best materials on the market for teaching students how to read and write history with intellectual integrity and depth. Rarely have I come across curriculum so useful in helping students become literate, thinking citizens. Bravo. -- Sam Wineburg
  • Now have two generations whose minds have been totally perverted, polluted, and destroyed by the American public education system, and, in particular, the history curriculum. Breitbart has a story on how this has happened. As the left appeases Muslims, public schools are teaching students to hate America. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Student teaching is the hardest job there is. -- Jane Kaczmarek
  • When I'm teaching, I tell my students: It's all process. Don't even think of product. -- Maxine Hong Kingston
  • If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. -- William Glasser
  • Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way. -- Bill Gates
  • I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult. -- Lydia Davis
  • Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. -- Jon Porter
  • Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people. -- Miriam Schapiro
  • I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them. -- Mary Ellen Mark
  • 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 first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. -- Paul Wellstone
  • 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 think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach to the kid. -- Erin Gruwell
  • Education can help all Americans live longer, healthier lives. Teaching students to make healthy decisions can improve habits now and instill healthy eating habits for a lifetime. -- Matt Cartwright
  • In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public. -- B. Carroll Reece
  • The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening. -- Brian De Palma
  • You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. -- Marilyn Hacker
  • As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching. -- Carter G. Woodson
  • The teachers were focused on helping these students. The students benefited from hands-on teaching and a faculty who cared about them and their success in life and soon the students began to believe in themselves and the reality that they could make something of their lives. -- Michael N. Castle
  • I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test. -- Erin Gruwell
  • Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America. -- Andrew Card
  • The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy. -- Marshall Gregory
  • How to tell students what to look for without telling them what to see is the dilemma of teaching. -- Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable. -- Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
  • The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students. -- Henri Lebesgue
  • My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students. -- Dana Spiotta
  • Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know. -- Luqman
  • For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world. -- Parker J. Palmer
  • I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities. -- Marva Collins
  • teaching the students I did before the accident helped me understand that a disability isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be handled -- Amy Rankin
  • The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was. -- David McCord
  • The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions. -- Garry Winogrand
  • One of the biggest things that needs to change is the educational system. Universities are still teaching a system to students that destroys the biosphere. -- Ray Anderson
  • 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
  • The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so. -- Deborah Meier
  • One of the big failings of art schools is that students aren't given any teaching on how to survive as a one-person business, which is what it is. -- Stuart Pearson Wright
  • [Students] often have a "We can figure this out - don't just tell us" attitude. In that way, they can be less patient with "traditional" approaches to teaching. -- Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • 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
  • It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me. -- Margaret Geller
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