“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.” ThinkingKnowsMatterKidsKnow HowTeacherPiecesSubjectsAchievementCriticalGapsClosingSubject MatterImpartAchievement Gap Author:Margaret Spellings
“In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.” ThinkingArtArtistSubjectsAchievementMusicianPainterArchitectLiterary Art Book:Facts and Comments Source: Facts and Comments
“Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.” Life IsFallProcessSubjectsAchievementFinishedThis LifeSlipsPrecarious Book:Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection Source: Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Collection
“One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.” HumansAchieveSubjectsAchievementDignityTasksHuman Dignity Author:Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
“I never knew a man more free from conceit, or one to whom it was a greater extent a pleasure, as well as a recognized duty, to listen patiently to what might be said to him upon any subject under consideration....Neither, I need scarcely say, was he in the habit of talking, much less boasting, of his own achievements.” MenNeedsWellsSaidMightPleasureTalkingGreaterSubjectsDutyHabitAchievementConsiderationBoastConceitTalking Much Author:Martin Van Buren