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“People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.”

People Way Feelings Care Responsibility Focus Teacher Failing Buddhism Excuse Take Care Buddhist Taking Responsibility Etiquette

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.”

Ifs Use Care Growth Nature Community Levels Teacher Plans Failing Smart Workers Income Variety Officers Conservation Housing Employers Firefighter Retail Rant Smart Growth

Author:Carl Guardino

“I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.”

Opportunity Teacher Failing Cost Incredibles Luxury Realising Sanity Opportunities To Learn

Author:Arabella Weir

“The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.”

Turns Teacher Failing Students

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A country that fails to value its teachers, fails to value its future.”

Country Values Teacher Failing

Author:David Puttnam

“I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.”

Thinking Made Remember Class Laughing Teacher Failing Trouble Entertainment Passing Passings Clown Passing It

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.”

Way Two Moral Teacher Failing Harm Two Ways Clergymen

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“Kids don't fail. Teachers fail, school systems fail. The people who teach children that they are failures, they are the problem.”

People Children Problem Kids School Teach Teacher Failing School System

Author:Marva Collins

“I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.”