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“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”

People Facts Stories Culture Strong Loses Ability Learning Teaching Hero Dues Myth Contemporary Plot Unhappiness Constructs Lifelong Heroines

Author:Guy Claxton

“True leadership strengthens the followers. It is a process of teaching, setting an example, and empowering others. If you seek to lead, your ability will ultimately be measured in the successes of those around you.”

Ifs Process Leadership Ability Teaching Example Setting Settings Empowering Followers True Leader True Leadership Empowering Others Setting An Example

Book:Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it

Source: Simple secrets of success: what scientists have learned and how you can use it

“The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.”

Ability Teach Learning Teaching

Book:Continuities in Cultural Evolution

Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution

“Teaching art is a shared experience. Our ability to share our own personal vision and interact with others through art can become realized.”

Art Ability Vision Share Teaching Art Is Shared Experiences Teaching Art Personal Vision

Author:Michael Bell

“Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.”

Needs Feelings Ability Emotion Talking Teacher Teaching Emotional Skills Comfortable Including Literacy Emotional Literacy

Author:Daniel Goleman

“It makes little sense to spend a month teaching decimal fractions to fourth-grade pupils when they can be taught in a week, and better understood and retained, by sixth-grade students. Child-centeredness does not mean lack of rigor or standards; it does mean finding the best match between curricula and children's developing interests and abilities.”

Source: TIES THAT STRESS

“Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing.”

“Teaching well draws from the same well that writing draws from: the reserves of compassion and ability to listen and concentrate on another. So I have to have fine line between teaching and writing. I try not to ever think of career. I just try to go to the dream world every day.”

Thinking World Writing Trying Wells Dream Lines Ability Compassion Careers Teaching Fine Draws Reserves Fine Lines Dream World

Author:Andre Dubus

“Teaching is not about information. It's about having an honest intellectual relationship with your students. It requires no method, no tools, and no training. Just the ability to be real. And if you can't be real, then you have no right to inflict yourself upon innocent children.”

Ifs Children Real Ability Teaching Honest Information Students Intellectual Training Tools Method Innocent Being Real Innocent Children

Author:Paul Lockhart