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teacher teenager madly-in-love
Like any teenager who reads The Great Gatsby, probably, I was madly in love with the teacher who had opened it up for me. Rob Sheffield
teacher coffee brilliant
You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around. Richelle Mead
teacher writing thinking
Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight. William Zinsser
teacher attitude kids
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man. William Saroyan
teacher educational philosophy
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher. William James
teacher educational philosophy
The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence. William James
teacher art teaching
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help. William James
teacher art teaching
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist. William James
teacher art teaching
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand." William James
children finds himself useless
I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes. Jason Statham
children coming few helping kids program reading shelter
Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot. Kerry Nelson
children city stop streets teach throwing
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
children compared cost couple elderly family financial four good home keeping minimal replace stay town
Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them. John Romano
children school thinks
All children are much more intelligent than they are told they are or the school thinks they are; they just have different intelligences. Tony Buzan
children discovered information passing people
It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. Sugata Mitra
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In most schools, we measure children on what they know. By and large, they have to memorize the content of whatever test is coming up. Because measuring the results of rote learning is easy, rote prevails. What kids know is just not important in comparison with whether they can think. Sugata Mitra
children inclined less standing
If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves. Sugata Mitra
children few reach remote supplies villages
There are still too few helicopters to reach more than 1,000 remote villages with lifesaving supplies that children urgently need. Ann Veneman
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. Rebecca West
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. Russell Banks