“... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits without which the very freedom of learners is lost in lawlessness, but these moments, in accordance with the political options of the educator, are alternated with others in which the educator speaks with the learner.” DoneMomentsPoliticalLostSpeakTeacherSocietyLimitsAuthorityEducatorLearnersLawlessness Author:Paulo Freire
“Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.” WayInspirationalMomentsTeacherBuddhismEnlightenmentTrialsEcstasyAbandonedGreat TeacherTribulationTrials And Tribulations Author:Frederick Lenz
“There are moments as a teacher when I'm conscious that I'm trotting out the same exact phrase my professor used with me years ago. It's an eerie feeling, as if my old mentor is not just in the room, but in my shoes, using me as his mouthpiece.” IfsYearsMomentsFeelingsUsedRoomsTeacherConsciousYears AgoShoesPhrasesOld ManProfessorsMentorUsing MeEerieMouthpieceTrotting Author:Abraham Verghese
“Even enlightened people think of themselves as beginners. They probably think of themselves as beginners more than others do - perpetual beginners who begin again each moment because their subject is endless.” PeopleThinkingMomentsTeacherSubjectsEndlessEnlightenedPerpetualBeginnersBegin Again Author:Frederick Lenz
“Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.” MenPersonsMomentsFormTeacherImagineAwarenessEnlightened Author:Frederick Lenz
“History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot find them among his contemporaries. Without history the mountain chain of great men's great moments, which runs through millennia, could not stand clearly and vividly before me.” MenNeedsMomentsRunningFightingViewsTeacherExampleMountainChainsGreat MenGreat MomentsComforter Author:Georg Brandes
“I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.” MomentsUniverseTeacherTeachingBuddhismThat MomentRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“I remember a moment when the Prince went back to his old school, Grammar School in Melbourne, and slightly to his horror his old music teacher produced a cello.” MomentsSchoolRememberLiteratureTeacherHorrorGrammarOld SchoolMelbourneGrammar SchoolOld MusicMusic Teacher Author:Anthony Holden
“Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.” WorldMomentsHomeBodyForceTeacherDogAccountsLive In The MomentGreat TeacherBank AccountsDog Love Author:Susan Cheever
“There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.” MomentsBeautifulFilmClassComedyTeacherFrontsDramaScriptsGreat MomentsLevityTourettes Author:James Wolk