“The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.” WorldCountryStatesWholeAmericaPoliticalInterestUnitedEffortUnited StatesTeacherEnlightenmentResourcesPoliceStrikesTendenciesExceptionOther CountriesScopeUndesirable Author:George F. Kennan
“I had accepted a job being a math teacher for Teach For America. So, that's what I would have done at least in the two years after I graduated.” YearsTwoDoneJobsAmericaTeachTeacherMathAcceptedTwo YearsMath Teacher Author:Chris Baio
“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.” MenWellsKindPersonsLongHappensAmericaRememberYoungFallNextCommunitySleepSecretStruggleTeacherDependsYoung ManTonightWrestling Author:Barack Obama
“My teacher sent me all over the world to talk about meditation - Europe, all over America, Canada. I would drive thousands of miles, travel, all at my own expense, to do this.” WorldAmericaMy OwnTeacherMeditationEuropeMilesCanadaExpensesRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.” WorldAmericaDemocracyTeacherStandardsConsumersAdvertisers Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“The teachers in America need to be applauded every day because they save the lives of kids!” NeedsKidsAmericaTeacherTeaching Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“Whether youre working in corporate America or youre a journalist, construction worker, a teacher or an actor - were all trying to keep working. If one job is ending, you look for another job. When Psych ends, I will be looking for another job.” IfsTryingLooksEndsJobsAmericaActorsTeacherWorkersCorporateJournalistConstructionCorporate AmericaPsychConstruction Workers Author:Dule Hill
“Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.” HomeAmericaTeacherBrotherTransformationMarijuanaLegalizing Marijuana Author:Carlos Santana
“Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.” SchoolJobsAmericaLevelsTeacherImportancePublic SchoolUnderpaidJobs In America Author:Dean Smith
“Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.” ChildrenCountryDoneWantedSchoolAmericaFacesParentWhiteResponsibilityClassTeacherHolesStaringBombsGradesJapanFortyFourthDesksTaking ResponsibilityPublic SchoolDisbeliefMuteAtomic BombHiroshimaClassmatesChalkUnforgivableFourth GradeBlackboard Author:Linda Hoaglund
“Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.” ChildrenSaidIdeasSelfTodayChristianAmericaCultureHalfTeacherGenerationsGrewGrew UpOur ChildrenExtremesSignificantStealingTraditionalFormerYour ChildrenMainstreamSixtyConsumerismDominant1960sIndulgenceSelf IndulgenceDissidentsHedonismWoodstockDominant CultureCounter Culture Author:Pat Buchanan
“I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more.” NeedsSchoolAmericaTermFocusTeacherNeededPaidFundingDeserving Author:Sarah Palin
“I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendents - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women.” PeopleThinkingMenNeedsGivingEnoughAgeAmericaYoungParentNumbersResponsibilityTeacherCitizensCallingMen And WomenComplexesRingsFuelGood TimesFossilsCompetentFossil FuelYoungstersTime To ThinkBest Teacher Author:Hyman Rickover
“As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion.” IfsWorldKindMatterFactsSchoolAmericaValuesCultureAnswersTeachNovelAudienceTeacherConversationDecidedCome UpGuidesToleranceAll KindsDiscussionAmerican CultureIconsPublicationMatter Of FactHarperMockingbirdKill A Mockingbird Author:Wayne Flynt