“I encourage all of you to seek out teachers and mentors that challenge you to think for yourself and guide you to find your own voice.” ThinkingVoiceChallengesTeacherGuidesMentorThink For Yourself Author:Renee Olstead
“Once in while a teacher may make a recommendation, it is usually after going through the basic Socratic method of trying to get people to figure it out themselves. A good teacher challenges your mind, your intellect, and your spirit.” PeopleTryingMindMaySpiritChallengesTeacherFiguresMethodIntellectEnlightenedGood TeacherRecommendationsSocratic Author:Frederick Lenz
“As a result of the prison study, I really became more aware of the central role of power in our lives. I became more aware of the power I have as a teacher. I started consciously doing things to minimize the negative use of power in the classroom. I encouraged students to challenge me.” UseChallengesResultsRolesStudyTeacherOur LivesStudentsNegativePrisonClassroomUse Of Power Author:Philip Zimbardo
“For me, to represent people who represent the future of Canada and the great challenges we will face over the coming decades - this is where I wanted to start. I'm a teacher; I'm a convenor; I'm a gatherer; I'm someone who reaches out to people and is deeply interested in what they have to say. And people see that I'm not faking it. I'm actually genuinely committed to this dialogue that we're opening up, and this understanding that needs to happen in order to be an effective MP.” PeopleNeedsHappensWantedFacesOrderUnderstandingChallengesTeacherCommittedDecadesDialogueOpeningCanadaReach OutOpening UpFaking ItMps Author:Justin Trudeau
“One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. ... On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.” NeedsHumansHandsPastChoicesIndividualChallengesCreativityNovelCreativeTeacherAchieveBuildingMajorsModelsCommitmentInnovationInsightInquiryContinuityLearnersCollaboratorsHuman KnowledgeCreative Life Author:Vera John-Steiner
“Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.” WayNeedsMindCharacterHelpingChallengesEnemyVirtueTeacherBuildingEssentialsValuableToleranceDevelopingPeace Of MindTrue HappinessBuilding Character Author:Dalai Lama
“[The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?” WorldWayNeedsShouldFormHoursChallengesHalfAcceptingTeacherImagineListeningOffersDoctorsInevitableCentreBureaucracyFillingUtopiaPolicemenAnother WorldFilling In Author:Gillian Tett
“In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.” WayChildrenJobsChallengesQualitySupportCreativeTeacherCapableIntelligentAppropriate Author:Louise Boyd
“That is the challenge of a spiritual teacher: not to take on board the projections of specialness people have. This is especially dangerous for spiritual teachers who only have contact with disciples or followers, who may live in an ashram.” PeopleMaySpiritualChallengesTeacherDangerousContactBoardsFollowersDiscipleProjectionSpiritual TeachersSpecialness Author:Eckhart Tolle
“No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.” PeopleWayNeedsMadeMomentsRunningActionChallengesLeadershipAnswersCompanyLeaderStruggleTeacherSolutionsResourcesCoachesEmpoweringClosestEncouragingFrontline Author:Steve Miller
“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.” SelfGirlChallengesAbilityAttitudeSituationBoysTeacherSelf EsteemFailureApproachIncludingEsteemFactorsAttributes Book:Shame: The Exposed Self Source: Shame: The Exposed Self
“A smooth lecture... may be pleasant; a good teacher challenges, asks, irritates and maintains high standards - all that is generally not pleasant.” MayAsksChallengesTeacherTeachingStandardsPleasantSmoothLecturesGood TeacherHigh Standards Author:Paul Halmos
“We [people] have a teacher! The teacher is ourselves! We already know everything we need to know - our challenge is to discover that we know it. Turning to gurus, I think, we become guru-dependent, no different from drug-dependent, alcohol-dependent - needing an outside force to control our lives.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsDifferentForceChallengesTeacherOur LivesDrugAlcoholDependentGuru Author:Richard Bach
“The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.” YearsBelieveEndsFacesGoalCommunityChallengesLeaderVisionSuccessfulTeacherProgressStudentsLowsPerformancesOvercomingHarderPlanningIncomePerformingClassroomExecutionWhatever It TakesLow IncomeGoal OrientedSuccessful Leaders Author:Wendy Kopp
“We must be willing to pay inspiring math and science teachers, who have high paying alternatives in industry, more to teach and reward students who take more challenging courses in high school.” SchoolCoursesChallengesInspiringPayTeachTeacherStudentsWillingIndustryHigh SchoolRewardsMathAlternativesMath And ScienceScience Teacher Author:Mark Kennedy
“The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.” ChildrenNextParentChallengesStepsRolesFocusTeacherGenerationsTaughtHigherSucceedAriseMentorPreparingGreat TeacherNext Steps Author:Oliver DeMille
“We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith.” ImportantSoulEarthSpiritualParentChallengesResponsibilityFireTeacherGenerationsFansArmsCapacityCoreFlamesRisingCasualGreat SpiritualParents And Teachers Author:Neil L. Andersen
“I do think there is an enhanced awareness of insecurity and vulnerability that induces anxiety that creates pressure on teachers and administrators to offer simplistic explanations and to be resistant to expressions of attitudes that can be viewed as unpatriotic, which is further interpreted as applicable to any tendency to challenge the government when it claims to be acting overseas to avoid repetitions of 9/11 or to encroach on domestic freedom to identify suspicious persons and behaviors.” ThinkingPersonsGovernmentChallengesActingAttitudeTeacherAwarenessExpressionOffersBehaviorAnxietyClaimsPressureTendenciesExplanationVulnerabilityInsecurityRepetitionSuspiciousAdministratorsUnpatriotic Author:Richard A. Falk
“I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.” WayPastChallengesTeacherInsightLazinessQuestioningSloppiness Author:David O. Russell