An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

Criss Jami

Tags: imagination learning school confidence humility genius arrogance theory teaching pride ego attention students attention-span gifted



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To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Criss Jami

Tags: humor thinking philosophy funny thought philosopher comedy teaching leadership authority funny-but-true comedian sense-of-humor reversal taught challenging rethinking reverse challenging-authority comedic reconsideration deeper-thought



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Teachers, you don't teach a subject, you teach a child.

Deepa Bhushan

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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.

Berenice Abbott

Tags: teaching choices-and-consequences



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People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tags: science education freedom religion america teachers letters literacy evolution creation first-amendment teaching freedom-of-religion dinosaurs big-bang intelligent-design new-jersey creationism noah-s-ark big-bang-theory church-and-state new-york-times scientific-literacy



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I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people.

Augustine of Hippo

Tags: education compassion teaching leadership servanthood



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If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Tags: thinking learning think teaching teach learn training tool



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...anyone still attempting to argue that Ebonics is a problem for black students or that it is somehow connected to a lack of intelligence or lack of desire to achieve is about as useful as a Betamax video cassette player, and it's time for those folks to be retired, be they teachers, administrators, or community leaders, so the rest of us can try to do some real work in the service of equal access for black students and all students. (15)

Adam J. Banks

Tags: education black teaching rhetoric african digitalization composition dj



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The difference between a beginning teacher and an experienced one is that the beginning teacher asks, "How am I doing?" and the experienced teacher asks, How are the children doing?

Esmé Raji Codell

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Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Virginia Woolf

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