"Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside."
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"It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him."
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"I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form."
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"... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught."
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"Allow situations in your life to become your teacher."
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"Natural ability is by far the best, but many men have succeeded in winning high renown by skill that is the fruit of teaching."
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"In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!"
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"I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!"
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"I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure."
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"Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment."
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"If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher."
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"Nevertheless, no school can work well for children if parents and teachers do not act in partnership on behalf of the children's best interests. Parents have every right to understand what is happening to their children at school, and teachers have the responsibility to share that information without prejudicial judgment.... Such communication, which can only be in a child's interest, is not possible without mutual trust between parent and teacher."
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"Let the teachers teach English and I will teach baseball. There is a lot of people in the United States who say isn't, and they ain't eating."
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"We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them."
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"Journal writing is a voyage to the interior."
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"Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do."
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"The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things."
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"Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students."
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"Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right."
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"Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
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