Quotes About TeachersInspiring thinking of you quotes about teachers will definitely clarify what we require of our teachers. The question is, then, are we expecting our teachers to do more than what we can do or are willing to do as parents? Teachers have tremendous influence in a positive way, and can do immeasurable damage in a negative way. Teaching, as a profession, is not for everyone and those that excel should be well rewarded. |
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The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." Dan Rather Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Nine-tenths of education is encouragement. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. |
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