Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clifford Stoll

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

Clifford Stoll

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Dave Carter

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

David Soul

My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

David Perkins

Teachers and administrators sleepwalk through their responsibilities, dulled and discouraged by the endless pressures and problems.

David Perkins

Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction to combat the energy - draining pressures and frustrations of most educational settings.

David Plouffe

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and - and - or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?

David Petersen

I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.

David Platt

Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.

David Lynch

Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.

David Lynch

Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

David Harewood

At school, I was the classroom clown - I was always being thrown out for being naughty. Before I left, a teacher called me in and suggested I became an actor.

David Hawkins

All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time. All have said, simply: Give up weak attractors for strong attractors.

Confucius

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

Confucius

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

Confucius

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

Confucius

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

Confucius

Every piece of marble has a statue in it waiting to be released by a person of sufficient skill to chip away the unnecessary parts. Just as the sculptor is to the marble, so is education to the soul. It releases it. For only educated people are free people. You cannot create a statue by smashing the marble with a hammer, and you cannot by the force of arms release the spirit or the soul of people.

Confucius

The ideal teacher guides his students but does not pull them along; he urges them to go forward and does not suppress them; he opens the way but does not take them to the place.

Confucius

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

Confucius

If I were travelling with two partners, one virtuous and one dishonest, both would be useful as teachers. I would perceive what's good of the first one and I would imitate him whereas I would try to correct in me the defects I may see in the second one.

Confucius

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Confucius

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

Confucius

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Daniel Tosh

I dated a teacher in high school. Yeah, it didn't make me cooler. And a lot of you are like 'that's cause you were homeschooled'.

Dana Spiotta

I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Dallas Willard

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

Curtis White

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

Dave Eggers

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

Dave Eggers

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in.

David Levithan

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

David Levithan

teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.