"Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process."
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"Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future."
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"How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself."
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"Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning."
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"I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything."
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"The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'"
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"Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management."
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"Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak."
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"Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching."
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"In thinking back, not having any experience in any other elementary school, there may have been an advantage of being with different age groups to benefit from what they were learning in a more advanced capacity. With a small group like that, there was a lot of one-to-one teaching."
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"It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years."
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"Teaching literature is teaching how to read. How to notice things in a text that a speed-reading culture is trained to disregard, overcome, edit out, or explain away; how to read what the language is doing, not guess what the author was thinking; how to take evidence from a page, not seek a reality to substitute for it."
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"Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent."
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"When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies."
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"I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with less talent. But that is not what I do in my writing and teaching. Still the love for the text we have in common."
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"My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud."
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"If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching."
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"Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim."
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"Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative"
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"I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive."
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