“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.” YearsSchoolSocialCitiesCareersStudyTeachingHigh SchoolYears AgoRetiredSocial StudiesInner CityYounger SisterTeaching History Author:Judy Woodruff
“I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.” WorldSchoolTeacherTeachingHigh SchoolTablesChemistryEpistemologyPedagogyPeriodic TableChemistry Teachers Author:Isadore Singer
“Teaching high school, in addition to knowing one's subject matter thoroughly and being able to convey it to others, requires the grit of a long-distance runner, the stamina of a boxer going 15 rounds, the temperament of a juggler and the street smarts of a three-card monte dealer.” SchoolTeachingSmartHigh SchoolMathematicalTemperamentDealerStamina Author:Larry Cuban
“Teaching high school in an inner-city school is not an easy task. Every teacher is responsible for 150 teenagers. The amount of work is just mind-boggling. Remember, you're not just doing a job. You have these kids' futures in your hand; you have to inspire them.” MindHandsKidsSchoolJobsRememberEasyCitiesTeacherTeachingInspireAmountHigh SchoolTasksResponsibleTeenagerRemember YouRemembers YouInner CityEasy TasksMind BogglingInner City Schools Author:Tony Danza
“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)” FeelsLittlesHas BeensTodayActionSchoolLawTimeOrderCoursesHouseFeltEducationSadnessTeachingRocksSorrowHigh SchoolCourtPursueIslandsStayingTroopsIntegrationCompelledMonarchyInterferenceWilsonFirmnessUnlawfulRhode IslandLittle Rock Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.” IfsHas BeensDoneBigsKidsSchoolAttentionClassComedyTeacherPlansTeachingLessonsWasteMouthsHigh SchoolComedianWasting TimePrincipalDelivering Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” HardProblemSchoolDifficultEducationTeachingStudentsHigh SchoolAgingMathematicalTeenagerEncountersConvinceTeenageGeometryAlgebraTeenage GirlTeenage YearsHigh School Students Author:E. W. Howe
“I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.” ThinkingSchoolFoundStuffProcessTeachingRocksLessonsHigh SchoolJazzGrantedMy ThoughtsThought Process Author:Glenn Kotche
“Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go... To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.” PeopleWayWantWellsSchoolJobsPayTeachingHonestHigh SchoolImpactCoachesEnjoyedBeing HonestCoaching Author:Charlie Weis
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.” WorldLittlesBookRealSchoolTeachingTrainingHigh SchoolNovelistsLives Of Others Author:Garth Greenwell
“I guess I've done a lot of different kinds of performing at various times - opera singing, poetry reading, not least high school teaching - and I do enjoy it, at least sometimes. But I find it incredibly anxiety-producing and exhausting. Privacy is more congenial, and I go a little crazy if I can't spend a big chunk of every day, or almost every day, alone. Certainly I have to be alone to write.” IfsWritingKindLittlesI CanDifferentSometimesDoneBigsSchoolReadingEnjoyCrazyTeachingAnxietySingingHigh SchoolVariousPerformingPrivacyOperaDifferent KindsExhaustingChunksPoetry ReadingOpera Singing Author:Garth Greenwell
“It was only when I got to high school and was in the art program that my artistic talent was recognized. The art program was directed by a wonderful and a very important person in my life - Charlotte Ranger, who was referred to as Mrs. Ranger. She had been teaching in the school for many years.” YearsPersonsArtImportantSchoolWonderfulTeachingTalentHigh SchoolProgramArtisticRangersCharlotteImportant PersonArtistic Talent Author:Paul Smith
“I went to a girls high school and I went to a women's college and when I first started teaching at Georgetown it had been a single sex school and so they wanted to have some women professors when they went co-ed, and so I originally was hired to start a program there, and really encourage women to go into foreign policy. I always have done that, and I really do think that things are better when women are involved.” ThinkingFirstsDoneWantedSchoolGirlSexTeachingPolicyCollegeInvolvedHigh SchoolProgramProfessorsForeign PolicyGeorgetown Author:Madeleine Albright
“I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky.” MeanStillsSchoolTeachingMonthsSixHigh SchoolCatholicQuittingSix MonthsFractionsCatholic School16th Birthday Author:George Carlin
“Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there is a project at the Zinn Educational Project: A People's History of Muslims in the United States - What School Textbooks and the Media Miss. And this program is teaching your high school student, juror junior high or middle school student.” PeopleStatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesTeachingMiddleMediaMissingStudentsProjectsHigh SchoolProgramEducationalBunchInsaneRadicalRanJuniorsLunaticTextbooksMiddle SchoolLeftistsJunior HighHigh School StudentsJurors Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If I reformed school, I would do two things: We can improve a child's IQ by three percent by teaching them a foreign language by seven-years-old. We shouldn't be waiting until high school when they are neurologically not ready to learn it. Second, we emphasize reading too young.” SchoolReadingLanguageWaitingTeachingHigh SchoolNot ReadyForeign Language Author:Paul Orfalea
“My dad took me to a high school basketball game and this very, very famous coach in Michigan, by the name of Lofton Greene - he was a guy that my dad was familiar with. He was from our hometown. And I watched the game and I said I didn't see this guy doing a lot of coaching. And my dad told me, well, it's just like a teacher - which he was - he said if you do a good job teaching during the week, when they take the test on Friday, that's not the time you have to do a lot of demonstrative things.” SchoolGuyTeacherWeekTeachingDadBasketballHigh SchoolMy DadCoachesFamiliarCoachingGood JobFridayHometownVery Famous Author:Tony Dungy
“My ambition in high school was to be a high school coach and teacher, and that's still what I do: teach.” StillsSchoolTeachTeacherTeachingAmbitionHigh SchoolCoachesMy Ambition Author:Mike Krzyzewski
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” IfsThinkingInspirationalTryingHumorSchoolFunnyWealthMoneyEducationKnowledgeLearningStudyTeacherTeachingStudentsIgnoranceHigh SchoolParentingUniversityAtheistEducationalCaringLawyerExpensiveGraduationLiteracyHarvardEducatorTeaching ChildrenGreat EducationCollege EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersKnowledge Is PowerSchools And EducationSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeachers And TeachingTeaching EducationTeacher StudentTeaching LearningChildren LearningGreat TeachingQuality EducationKnowledge EducationEducation And KnowledgeChildren EducationStudents And EducationChildren And EducationEducation And LiteracyFunny CommencementKnowledge And LearningValue Of EducationKnowledge LearningInspirational High School GraduationStupidity And IgnoranceKnowledge And IgnoranceLearning KnowledgeTeaching StudentsTraining And EducationEarly EducationRelated To EducationSchools And TeachersLiteracy And ChildrenLiteracy For ChildrenAim Of EducationCool GraduationEducational ChangeSecondary EducationGraduation Wishes Author:Derek Bok
“I'd be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn't enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I'm sure I would have never left.” IfsBelieveSchoolLeftNumbersTeachingCollegeHigh SchoolSouthHonestlySatisfiedCoachingIndianaTurned DownEnlisted Author:John Wooden
“NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?” PeopleShouldFirstsChildrenSaidGovernmentWould BeAbleSchoolVoiceBehindsHalfOpinionWatchesStudyFiveTeacherGenerationsTeachingMaterialsNewsHigh SchoolOur ChildrenAgreeNewspapersAdministrationSeptemberPublishApprovedChildren LearningSeptember 11th Author:Bill Maher
“The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.” FirstsKindSeemsWould BeSchoolLife IsFunInterestGrowing UpTeacherGrowingTeachingSubjectsBecomingLosingHigh SchoolDumbDullBe KindBecoming MoreLosing Interest Author:Beatrice Sparks
“In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.” WantChildrenHardDreamKidsSchoolMotherGirlInspiringCitiesCreativeTeachingSpecialLove YouHard WorkMomHigh SchoolTonightPregnantBe CreativeTeenageBetter LifeMothers DaySomething SpecialSingle MomLouisianaThat GirlHappy Mothers DaySay I Love YouTeenage GirlWere PregnantDropoutsSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:Jared Leto
“A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"” SchoolEducationTeacherTeachingHigh SchoolClockClassroomHungMinnesotaSchool TeachersMinneapolisHigh School Teachers Author:James E. Myers