“People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher like that is very abusive. Those people are actually usually taking their students energy.” PeopleWantSelfEnergyForeverTeacherStudentsConceptsDiscoverySelf DiscoveryEnlightenedStringsGuruAbusive Author:Frederick Lenz
“The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.” PeopleCharacterSpiritualBreakTeacherMastersConceptsTraditionalAttemptingZen MasterSpiritual Teachers Author:Frederick Lenz
“While I'm not a celebrity, it's such a weird concept that society has cooked up for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.” ActorsTeacherConceptsAstronaut Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.” KnowsExistenceTeacherStudentsIgnoranceConceptsOppositesAbsolutesJustifyConsideringSelf KnowledgeBankingKnowledgeable Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The headmistress was a very well-respected theater teacher. She taught me what stage left and stage right were, what a director was, and what all these things meant, which was something I had no concept of. She sent me off to drama school, at age 18, and I stayed there for three years. Before I knew it, I was working on a TV show.” YearsWellsShowsAgeSchoolThreeLeftTeacherStageTaughtTvsDramaDirectorsConceptsTheaterThree YearsTv ShowsHeadmistress Author:Robert Kazinsky
“You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.” KnowsMaySchoolTeacherStudentsCollegeAnxietyMajorsHighestTrainingConceptsRateMathEnthusiasmGradesClassroomSchool TeachersGrades In School Author:Anya Kamenetz