"This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go."
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"A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life."
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"No school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests"
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"Research shows that there is only half as much variation in student achievement between schools as there is among classrooms in the same school. If you want your child to get the best education possible, it is actually more important to get him assigned to a great teacher than to a great school."
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"We are all special cases."
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"Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well."
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"The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work."
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"A true disciple shows his appreciation by reaching further than his teacher."
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"As with all great teachers, his curriculum was an insignificant part of what he communicated. From him you didn't learn a subject, but a life...Tolerance and justice, fearlessness and pride, reverence and pity, are learned in a course on long division if the teacher has those qualities."
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"He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master."
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"'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger."
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"You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught."
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"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides."
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"I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal."
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"I’m too young and ridiculous a person to speak for my generation, but I’d be happy to talk about my own experiences as a generation Y writer. I was raised by a generation of hippies. Throughout my childhood, teachers urged me to fight the establishment. My English teacher assigned Ginsberg and Kerouac and declared Bob Dylan “a genius.” My science teacher told me that television was “the new opiate of the masses” and bragged about never having owned one. My drama teacher made us perform Beckett."
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"Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart."
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"Financial planners are salespeople. They are NOT teachers. Get your education from someone NOT getting a commission."
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"The best of all teachers is the one who helps people so that eventually they don't need him."
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"A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts."
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"Your enemy can be your greatest teacher."
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