![[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . . setting up debates where people learn not to listen to each other because they're so busy trying to win the debate.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-seeds-of-the-argument-culture-can-be-found-our-classrooms-where-a-teache.jpg)
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teacher jesus believe
The study of the Life of Jesus has had a curious history. It set out in quest of the historical Jesus, believing that when it had found Him it could bring Him straight into our time as a Teacher and Saviour. ... But He does not stay; He passes by our time and returns to His own... He returned to His own time, not owing to the application of any historical ingenuity, but by the same inevitable necessity by which the liberated pendulum returns to its original position. Albert Schweitzer
teacher kids thinking
So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth. Chris Crutcher
teacher children men
No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened. Charles Spurgeon
teacher play two
Some teachers had been trained to work out at Southern because I carried two out there. I carried a lady down here from Palmer's Crossing, used to play piano, and Billy Carter. Charles Phillips
teacher school demand
The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability. Diane Ravitch
teacher children educational
Going to school is not the same as going shopping. Parents should not be burdened with locating a suitable school for their child. They should be able to take their child to the neighborhood public school as a matter of course and expect that it has well-educated teachers and a sound educational program.
teacher hurt children
What is happening to teachers now across this nation is a disgrace. The attacks on them are a blot on our nation. Teachers and students are not different interest groups. Anyone who demeans teachers demeans education and hurts children.
teacher law teach
Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
teacher teaching working-conditions
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
winning men two
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
winning innocence empty
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses. Charles Peguy
winning average hands
I have also heard and read various accounts of why they [Sheldon Leonard and Carl Reiner] liked me. My favorites? I wasn't too good-looking, I walked a little funny, and I was basically kind of average and ordinary. I guess my lack of perfection turned out to be a winning hand. Let that be a lesson for future generations. Dick Van Dyke
winning race weather
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end. Yes, it bothers me when I have lines or puffiness or droops. But it connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together. Diane Lane
winning division-of-labor losing
The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing. Eduardo Galeano
winning past years
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best. Ben Jonson
winning bye want
I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye. Bas Rutten
winning littles citizenship
If 'little George Dubya Bush' wins, we are going to apply for Canadian citizenship. Eddie Vedder
winning awards musical
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. Ed McBain
ideas stronger ends
An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.
ideas rough
Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy. Stavros Cosmopulos
ideas language respected
No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation. Stephen Parker
ideas surprises unfamiliar
on interesting subjects, ideas and unfamiliar artists, with many surprises for visitors. John Walsh
ideas maybe similar
Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people's ideas, to see if they're similar to mine.
ideas quality
Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.
ideas numbers government
Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures. Ludwig von Mises
ideas political vices
The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.
ideas way no-idea
I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out. Chris Evans