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“Gentlemen ... Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman?”

Men Long Ability Brain Teacher Doctors Profession Lawyer Every Man Ministers Acknowledge Gentleman Incompetent

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.”

Made Said Brain Teacher Size Miserable Classroom Peas

Author:Willard Wigan

“Its my belief that you can take everyone down a logical path if you take them slowly enough, and the trouble is that mathematical brains can get scrambled a little bit on the way. You get a bad teacher, it messes you up for the rest of the journey.”

Ifs Way Littles Enough Belief Bits Brain Path Teacher Trouble Journey Little Bit Mess Mathematical Logical Bad Teacher

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.”

Want Energy Brain Teacher Ought Ambition Something Better

Book:Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

Source: Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

“You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.”

Thinking Looks Eye Walks Brain Teacher Teaching Neighborhood

Author:Ani DiFranco

“When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.”

Thinking Men Way Shows Bigs Acting Brain Saws Teacher Groups Theater One Man

Author:Edward Norton

“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.”

Ifs Knows Turns Stuff Brain Teacher Objects Youth Models Absolutes Tyrants Originality Apes Pupils Persecuted Erudite No Sympathy

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.”

Brain Teacher Students Resources Dollars Billions Developing Classroom Improving

Author:Naveen Jain