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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
teaching men self
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect. Russell Lynes
teaching writing care
I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow. William Zinsser
teaching rights civilization
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. William Jennings Bryan
teaching learning association
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations. William James
teaching praise wit
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. Roger Ascham
teaching college usc
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. Robert Scheer
teaching inquiry discussion
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist. Robert M. Hutchins
teaching average giving
I was never capable of being an average pupil. I would either seem refractory to any teaching and give the impression of being completely dumb or I would fling myself on my work with a frenzy, a patience, and a willingness to learn that astonished everybody. But to awaken my zeal, it was necessary to offer me something I liked. Once my appetite had been whetted, I became ravenously hungry. Salvador Dali
teaching school thinking
The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching. Salman Rushdie
simple order wish
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible. Richard P. Feynman
simple difficult science-and-religion
Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things. Richard Dawkins
simple needs individual
A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right. Richard Dawkins
simple chinese handcuffs
Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple. Rick Riordan
simple men simplicity
Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures. William Morris
simple needs loud
Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud. Rebecca Stead
simple thinking routine
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do. Roald Dahl
simple blind-belief curiosity
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. Richard Dawkins
simple cities people
We Americans, we're a simple people . . . but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities. Robin Williams