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"'Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false."
"You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it."
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
"The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself."
"I like to call amethyst the mother/healer/teacher/lover of the mineral kingdom because it is for lack of a better term an all purpose crystal. Feeling low? It'll help. Feeling lost? It will help. Need your mom? It will help. Need reassurance that you're making a positive choice in your life? It'll help."
"The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place."
"The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light."
"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."
"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
"Your worst enemy is your best teacher."
"Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn."
"there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be"
"The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
"To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher."
"Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?"
"The best teacher in life is experience."
"You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody else’s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower."
"As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children."
"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."
"No one can take it away from you."
