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teacher sex children
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
teacher writing class
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
teacher inspire great-teacher
A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires William Arthur Ward
teacher accomplishment challenges
Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
teacher lucky louisiana
And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then. William Joyce
teacher past culture
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. William Irwin Thompson
teacher father book
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. William Butler Yeats
teacher war experience
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. Walter Savage Landor
teacher book upset
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. Walter Dean Myers
past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past destiny thinking
Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power. Tony Robbins
past imagination vision
Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.
past doe letting-go-and-moving-on
Everybody's got a past. The past does not equal the future unless you live there.
past want
The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.
past years people
If we want to contrast what we have done in the past few years on delivery with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman delivered, let us remember the interest rates at 10 per cent. to 15 per cent., the 1.5 million fewer people in work, the boom and the bust and the borrowing at 8 per cent. Tony Blair
past political over-the-past
One of the things that I've been doing over the past few years is reevaluating my own powers of political analysis.
past term foreign-policy
You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.
past gone forgotten
There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten. Tom Robinson
culture illusion illusion-of-time
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time Alan Watts