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People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know. If you're a teacher you're in a constant battle with mildly deluded adults who think the world will get better if you imagine it is better. You want to teach about sex? Fine, but only when they're old enough to do it. You want to talk politics? Sure, but nothing modern. Religion? So long as you don't actually think about it. Otherwise some furious mob will come to your house and burn you for a witch. Nick Harkaway
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The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote. Michael Jackson
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. Mary Catherine Bateson
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John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting. Mark Sheppard
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Now I realize that I have to let everyone take what they have to take from the film. No matter what I think about the film, it becomes a little irrelevant. I think I would say that the film is trying to show us that - and I spoke about that earlier - we have to let the teachers invest in their own classroom. There's no use in trying to control everything. Education is fundamental. Philippe Falardeau
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I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being. Pope Francis
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A good teacher does not get lost in the details, but points to what is essential so that the child or student can find meaning and joy in life.
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Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross. Rachel Caine
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I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. Bobby Womack
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In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. Bobby Sherman
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right. Bobby Knight
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year. Alexander Pope
years years-ago thousand
The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.
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What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well. Alex Tabarrok
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop. Alex Kapranos