Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
Tom had never found any difficulty in discerning a pointer from a setter, when once he had been told the distinction, and his perceptive powers were not at all deficient. I fancy they were quite as st...
In some circumstances, a focus on extrinsic rewards (money) can actually diminish effort. Most (or at least many) teachers enter their profession not because of the money but because of their love for...
I've always admired teachers for their patience and purpose in choosing their profession.
I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don...
Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we shal...
The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.
Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes and dreams.
A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.
David Levi is a teacher as well as a chef, and, like most teachers, he loves to talk.
Children respect teachers today not for their knowledge but for the marks they give. Teachers respect children today not for the intelligence they have but for the threat they pose. That is the state...
Roger Collins wasn’t the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher.
Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.
Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.
I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.
Ultimately, classroom teachers are the targets of this anger, as they are the public face of the education system. As a group, teachers work very hard with limited resources. They are called upon to e...
Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in d...