#teaching

We knew the people in Natick and knew the teachers that would be teaching our children. It was important for us to be involved in the Natick community because we think so highly of it. ↗

— Darren Flutie

#children #community #highly #important #involved

Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#committed #enough #enter #haul #long

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#between #difference #dream #eradicated #greatest

I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me back then – would say, “Oh, really?” and raise their eyebrows and look at me a little more carefully. I remember the first party I went to after I became a teacher, someone asked me what I did for a living, and I said, “Well, I teach high school.” He looked over my shoulder, nodded his head, said, “I went to high school,” and walked away. Once I repeated this anecdote around a big table full of Mexican food in the garden at a place called La Choza in Chicago, and Becky Mueller, another teacher at the school, said that I was a “storyteller.” I liked that. I was looking for something to be other than “just” a teacher, and “storyteller” felt about right. I am a teacher and a storyteller in that order. I have made my living and my real contribution to my community as a teacher, and I have been very lucky to have found that calling, but all through the years I have entertained myself and occasionally other people by telling stories. ↗

— Peter Ferry

#careers #humor #learning #teaching #travel

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't. ↗

— David Eddings

#college #faculty #four #got #i

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. ↗

— Robert Bly

#absent #children #day #during #father

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#aside #cast #fundamental #fundamental right #hold

When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego in the education of children! Children should not be looked after, nor educated, by those who have not made a sacrifice within their hearts, laying down their own personal agenda and dreams, for the total ascension of the child. Even if you are to educate the children simply sitting under a tree; if you have the vision and the heart of a sage, those children will grow to be mighty men and women under your watch! And even if you wine and dine the children, putting them up in a palace; if you do not have the vision and the selfless heart of a sage, all you do is in utter vanity! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#educating-the-young #education #educators #heart-of-a-sage #honor

Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#bent #delaware #delaware state #education #nursing

I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#been #excited #i #intent #know