“Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can.” NeedsYearsStudentsTrainingFoundationUmpiresSolid Foundation Author:Jim Evans
“Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and instructing them how to become good leaders in the future.” NeedsChildrenYoungLeaderPrinciplesTeachingStudentsOur ChildrenAthleteGrandchildrenPouringGood LeaderYoung Athletes Author:Pat Williams
“I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.” PeopleNeedsFeelsGrowsClassPrinciplesTeacherStudentsEqualComfortableUncomfortableParadoxGood TeacherInvoke Author:Erica Brown
“A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings. The faculty's job, in great part, is to teach students how to use a library in a living way. All a student should really need is access to the library and a place to sleep.” IfsWayNeedsShouldUseJobsReadingSleepTeachStudentsBuildingLibraryUniversityClubsAccessDiscussionFaculty Book:Ciardi himself: fifteen essays in the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry Source: Ciardi himself: fifteen essays in the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry
“Instead of asking, "What can I do to make these students perform?" the great teacher says, "Something's not working! I must not be truly inspirational. What do I need to do to spark their passion to do the hard work to get a superb education?"” NeedsHardPassionTeacherStudentsHard WorkAskingSparksGreat TeacherSuperb Author:Oliver DeMille
“America's high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don't just mean that they're broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools-even when they're working as designed-cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.” KnowsNeedsMeanMadeTodaySchoolAmericaTeachCasesStudentsBrokenHigh SchoolFlawedObsolete Author:Bill Gates
“In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing material. The use of silence in teaching then becomes very powerful.” NeedsFeelsWellsMayArtIdeasSometimesFactsUseFormPowerfulSilenceTeachingStudentsMinesMaterialsPeriodsAreasGoldInsightStuckDevelopingCooksVery PowerfulIncompetentAbsorbingProcessing Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch
“Teaching's hard! You need different skills: positive reinforcement, keeping students from getting bored, commanding their attention in a certain way.” WayNeedsDifferentHardCertainAttentionTeachingStudentsSkillsBoredReinforcementPositive Reinforcement Author:Bill Gates
“Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.” NeedsWritingDifferencesSeeingStudentsStrategyMaking A DifferenceCosmeticsOur WordsRevision Author:Georgia Heard
“Our government is committed to helping our young people develop the skills and training they need to succeed. Through our Summer Company program, students can launch a business, become employers, and gain an advantage in the highly competitive global economy - all while still in school.” PeopleNeedsStillsHelpingGovernmentSchoolYoungCompanyEconomyStudentsSucceedSkillsSummerTrainingGainsAdvantageProgramCommittedEmployersGlobal Economy Author:Brad Duguid
“I'm talking about France and Germany and Italy and Spain - new friend Germany - and I love that story, how they lead the world in some things that the world needs leadership in. Amongst them we're the only ones without national healthcare. Can't go to a hospital and not worry about falling into bankruptcy. They go to university free. We're killing our students with debt. That scares me.” WorldNeedsStoriesFallTalkingWorryStudentsKillingUniversityDebtFranceGermanyHospitalsScareHealthcareSpainBankruptcyNew Friends Author:Tavis Smiley
“Our current expectations for what our students should learn in school were set fifty years ago to meet the needs of an economy based on manufacturing and agriculture. We now have an economy based on knowledge and technology.” NeedsShouldYearsSchoolTechnologyEconomyStudentsExpectationsYears AgoCurrentsAgricultureManufacturing Author:Bill Gates
“We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness - curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids into truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don't do that.” NeedsGivingKidsOrderQualityRiskStudentsAdventureAdultsCapacityTestsCuriosityInsightResilienceSurprisingNow And ThenIntroducingAutonomyFlexibleCompetentYouthfulness Author:John Taylor Gatto
“Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.” NeedsActionStudentsTragedyRedemptionContradictionStarks Author:Reuel Howe
“We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.” NeedsAbleJobsPayStudentsCollegeCostDegreesAreasGraduatesIncentivesLoanGraduate Students Author:Elizabeth Warren
“There's 150,000 students here from the Middle East. If 40% of them have overstayed their visa, don't we need to know where they are, what they're doing, are they obeying our rules?” IfsKnowsNeedsMiddleStudentsEastMiddle EastObeyingVisa Author:Rand Paul
“The saving of empty beer and liquor bottles is a strange college phenomenon. I bet most of you college students reading this right now have some empties on a shelf in your room. Everyone knows how much college kids like to drink, do we really need to display it? It's a good thing, though, that this trend stops after college. Wouldn't it be weird if your parents had empty wine bottles up on their bedroom wall?” IfsKnowsNeedsKidsReadingParentRoomsKnow HowStudentsCollegeStrangeWallDrinkRight NowEmptyWineGood ThingsSavingBeerPhenomenonBottlesTrendsDisplayBedroomShelvesLiquorYour RoomCollege StudentsBedroom Wall Author:Aaron Karo
“Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.” NeedsGivingPassionFocusStageStudentsGiving UpAdultsFocusedPursuitCenter Stage Author:Amanda Schull
“It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.” NeedsImportantTeacherStudentsBenefitsCounseling Author:William C. Menninger
“I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.” WantNeedsChildrenCultureStudentsDiversityToleranceVocabularyAccustomedOther Cultures Author:Suzy Amis
“Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.” NeedsGovernmentSocialCommunityPovertyIssuesEconomicTalentStudentsCollegeDevelopmentEssentialsResearchOrganizationStrongerInnovationLocalsFundIntegrationSocial IssuesInnovativeResearchersEconomic DevelopmentLocal CommunitySocial Innovation Author:Ed Holder
“California, because of their Equity Funding Formula, moves a step in that direction by sending more resources to communities and students that face greater levels of poverty. But California is doing that from a greater position of real weakness, because they were already so far behind other states in funding per student. It’s a step, but many more steps need to be taken.” NeedsRealStatesFacesMovingCommunityLevelsBehindsStepsPovertyTakenGreaterPositionStudentsWeaknessResourcesCaliforniaFormulasEquityFunding Author:Pedro Noguera
“I don't make a lot of mistakes, honestly. I'm an A-student, I'm an Ivy Leaguer. I need those things.” NeedsMistakeStudentsHonestlyIvy Author:Jenny Slate
“There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.” NeedsYearsWarStoriesTodayMillionsLaughingFrontsStudentsThousandResearchOrdinaryMy FriendsYears AgoHistoricalAvailableInterviewsIranOne TimeThousand YearsLive For TodayOrdinary LifeHistorical Research Author:Mohammad Marandi
“Eleanor Roosevelt's very helpful to a lot of children who cannot speak French, who do not write well. And Marie Souvestre is fierce. She tears up students' papers that are not, you know, perfect. And Eleanor Roosevelt goes around, again, being incredibly helpful to children in need, children in trouble. And her best friends are the naughtiest girls who are in trouble. And she is a leader. And she is encouraged to be a leader. And everybody falls in love with her. She's a star.” KnowsNeedsWritingWellsChildrenFallGirlSpeakStarsPerfectLeaderTroubleStudentsTearsPaperFalling In LoveHelpfulFiercePapersEleanorMarieSpeaks French Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for it, in my view, by a tax on Wall Street speculation. The middle class bailed out Wall Street in their time of need. Now, it is Wall Street's time to help the middle class.” PeopleNeedsShouldBelieveCountryHelpingViewsPayClassMillionsStreetsMiddleStudentsWallTaxesDebtCrushMiddle ClassSpeculationTime Of Need Author:Bernie Sanders
“The way universities operate is the decision about what students need for the degree are... is the decision made by the faculty.” WayNeedsMadeDecisionStudentsDegreesUniversityFacultyDecisions Made Author:Louis Menand
“Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.” KnowsNeedsTryingJobsDecisionStudentsCome UpHelpfulFacultyCurriculumInput Author:Louis Menand
“There are 4 types of relationships. We generally know people who guide and help us like a parent or teacher; those who need our wisdom or help like a child or student; people with similar knowledge and experience on our life path who want to offer unconditional support; and those who do not wish to support us.” PeopleKnowsWantNeedsChildrenHelpingWishParentSupportPathTeacherOur LivesStudentsTypeOffersGuidesUnconditionalLife PathKnowledge And Experience Author:John Friend
“Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump basically share a policy of brute military strength. And both, I think, make a lot of Americans uneasy about our foreign policy going forward, which needs a frank discussion. Likewise on the issue of student debt and the future of our younger generation.” ThinkingNeedsIssuesGenerationsShareMilitaryPolicyStudentsTrumpClintonDebtDiscussionForeign PolicyFrankBrutesUneasyYounger Generation Author:Jill Stein
“We need to bring the spiritual dimension back into yoga and encourage students to look for teachings and practices that will take them to the next level.” NeedsLooksSpiritualNextLevelsPracticeTeachingStudentsYogaDimensionsNext LevelSpiritual DimensionsEncourage Students Author:Rajmani Tigunait
“Humor can be a great way to lift spirits and relate with soon-to-be high school grads. Whether you're in need of a funny senior year quote for a card, your yearbook, or a gift, you can use this list of funny graduation quotes by famous leaders and comedians to get inspired. To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.” WayNeedsYearsWellsMayStatesDoneUseSchoolSpiritPresidentUnitedLeaderUnited StatesStudentsHonorOne DayHigh SchoolInspiredListsCardsRelateLiftsComedianDistinctionAwardsSeniorWell DoneFunny GraduationGradSenior YearYearbookLift Spirits Author:George W. Bush
“I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.” IfsNeedsSaidMatterLeftLeaderStudentsGood Students Author:Salvador Allende
“When I was in Wuhan, I went to the art school, which was one of the most important art schools in China, an enormous art school. One of the things that I saw is that the schools are very big and there are so many students. It is very difficult to me to teach creative activity to great numbers of people, because I think you need personal contact with students, you need to speak individually, you need individual contact between teachers and students, you need continuity. To me this is a problem in mass education in every society now.” PeopleThinkingNeedsArtImportantProblemBigsSchoolIndividualSpeakDifficultNumbersTeachCreativeSawsTeacherStudentsActivityMassChinaEnormousContactContinuityArt SchoolTeacher And Student Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“When I was teaching I often said to students that you are trying to be too creative, don't be too creative, because there is so much already in what you are making, you don't need to do very much. You just need to do a little bit, and that is a lot.” NeedsTryingLittlesSaidBitsCreativeTeachingStudentsLittle Bit Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“I studied physics at Princeton when I was a college student, and my initial intention was to major in it but to also be a writer. What I discovered, because it was a very high-powered physics program with its own fusion reactor, was that to keep up with my fellow students in that program I would need to dedicate myself to math and physics all the time and let writing go. And I couldn't let writing go, so I let physics go and became a science fan and a storyteller.” NeedsWritingFansStudentsCollegeMajorsProgramFellowsIntentionMathPhysicsStorytellerInitialsFusionCollege StudentsPrinceton Author:Jon Spaihts
“I find that I get very excited about what my students are up to and that I get to be the hurdle they need to jump over.” NeedsStudentsExcitedHurdle Author:Alice Mattison
“Many of my students learn different techniques online and I have learnt a lot using this medium. Art is picking up in the Caribbean but it's unfortunate that we still have people looking down on it. Many persons who don't know better think that having a career in art is a waste of time. I guess the public just needs to be educated some more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsPersonsArtStillsDifferentCareersStudentsWasteArt IsTechniqueMediumsEducatedOnlineWasting TimeUnfortunateCaribbeanLooking Down Author:St. Lucia
“There is a much bigger issue with student loan rates, the cost of tuition; those are some huge problems that need to be resolved.” NeedsProblemIssuesStudentsHugeCostBiggerRateLoanTuitionStudent Loan Author:Alexis Ohanian
“Let's say you're all worried about student-loan debt and you need to have steady income. That doesn't have to be your everything.” NeedsStudentsDebtIncomeWorriedSteadyLoanStudent Loan Author:Alexis Ohanian
“The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.” NeedsShouldHomeIndividualStudentsDeterminedNeighborhoodTestingStandardized Testing Author:Nat Hentoff
“"Rocket Night" is my take on bullying culture. I think this is getting better, thanks to the anti-bullying work being done by my generation. But there's a way that coaches, teachers, parents, and administration officials can conspire against our students who need the most support.” ThinkingWayNeedsDoneNightCultureParentSupportTeacherGenerationsStudentsCoachesThanksAdministrationGet BetterOfficialsBullyingRocketsMy GenerationBeing DoneAnti Bullying Author:Alexander Weinstein
“Creating a classroom environment that encourages students to take the risk of learning. We've known for a long time that when students lack a sense of safety or of belonging or of contribution, learning takes second place to meeting those needs.” NeedsLongKnownEnvironmentRiskStudentsCreatingLong TimeSafetyMeetingsContributionBelongingClassroomSecond PlaceEncourage Students Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“We need to understand where are students are at any point during a unit - in other words, what each student actually knows, understands, and can do at a given time based on the content goals we've established.” KnowsNeedsGivenGoalCan DoStudentsUnits Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy to come to rely on two or three "trusty" instructional strategies like worksheets and lectures. Those are of little help in planning for a variety of student needs. As we develop a better toolbox, we're empowered to meet students where they are.” NeedsLittlesTwoHelpingThreeEasyStudentsToolsStrategyPlanningVarietyRelyAddressesLecturesEmpoweredRobustVarianceLittle HelpToolbox Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“Until a teacher learns to use elements like time, space, materials, groupings, and so forth flexibly, it's incredibly difficult to teach students as they need to be taught.” NeedsUseDifficultSpaceTeachTeacherStudentsTaughtMaterialsElements Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I have find that today's students are often more tolerant of human variance than students in earlier generations might have been. On the other hand, some of our students need much more interaction with a wide variety of peers so they level of understanding deepens and so they are prepared to live in a world that is only going to get smaller.” WorldNeedsHumansHas BeensHandsMightTodayUnderstandingLevelsGenerationsStudentsPreparedWideVarietyInteractionPeersMight Have BeenVariance Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsSeemsCultureIndividualTeachTeacherStudentsReaderNegativeTestsStressImpactScriptsFavorsScoreFollowersStakesSchedulesTestingDisregardStudent LearningTest Scores Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“We need teacher educators who regularly spend a great deal of time in classrooms so they have a deep understanding of where they students will teach.” NeedsUnderstandingDealsTeachTeacherStudentsClassroomEducatorDeep Understanding Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“We need teacher educators who are hungry to learn about and implement contemporary approaches to teaching and learning in their own classrooms and who are reflective about their work with their students.” NeedsTeacherTeachingStudentsApproachHungryContemporaryClassroomEducatorTeaching And Learning Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson