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“The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the objects; it is the child who is active, and not the teacher.”

Children Use Given Teacher Teaching Objects Active Agents Instruction Principal Epistemology Pedagogy

Author:Maria Montessori

“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.”

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“Very few people become enlightened in any given lifetime. On the planet earth their might be a dozen who are fully enlightened and several thousand who live in enlightened states of mind.”

People Mind States Might Earth Given Teacher Planets Thousand Lifetime Enlightened State Of Mind Dozen Planet Earth

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?”

“Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.”

Years Given Greater Teacher Fields Humility Forty Scholar Years Of Experience Great Confidence

Book:Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.

Source: Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.

“The coercive effect of this policy is particularly pronounced in the school setting given the age and impressionability of schoolchildren, and their understanding that they are required to adhere to the norms set by their school, their teacher, and their fellow students.”

Age School Given Understanding Teacher Atheism Effects Policy Students Fellows Positive Atheism Setting Settings Norm

Author:Alfred Goodwin

“As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.”

Needs Two Left Given Chance Ability Views Teacher Feet Increase Point Of View Buckminster Fuller

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“In acting class, teachers talk about how the 'givens' of a situation help define a character.”

Character Helping Given Acting Situation Class Teacher Acting Classes

Author:Hill Harper

“Every writing teacher gives the subliminal message, every time they teach: 'Your life counts for something.' In no other subject that I know of is that message given.”

Knows Giving Writing Given Teach Teacher Subjects Messages Subliminal Subliminal Messages

Author:Roger Rosenblatt

“Our assignment is not only to make visits but to consistently carry the Spirit into homes, to bless families with the pure love of Christ, to inspire, encourage, lift, and fortify. Every home is in need of additional support. Visiting teachers bring that blessed reinforcement. It is a sacred trust we have been given. We can overcome the obstacles.”

Needs Has Beens Home Spirit Given Christ Support Teacher Inspire Pure Overcoming Blessed Sacred Obstacles Lifts Bless Consistently Visiting Assignments Pure Love Reinforcement

Author:Bonnie D. Parkin

“Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.”

Ends Age Able Wanted Speak Given Careers Teacher Scholar I Am Pretty

Author:George Steiner

“I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.”

Ifs Children Stills Matter Home School Remember Names Given Teacher Hobbies Grammar Esoteric Grammar School

Author:Cormac McCarthy

“I could have been, and may one day well be a high school English teacher, because I've been given so much I just feel like I have to give something back. The fact that some people consider my work to be good or strong, it's nice, but I know in my heart that if it's not coming - oftentimes it's probably not coming from the best place.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Feels Wells Heart May Has Beens Facts School Strong Given Teacher Nice My Heart One Day High School Be Good Could Have Been Best Place English Teacher School English

Author:James McBride

“The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude; and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!”

Source: The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments, the Text Carefully Printed from the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts. With a Commentary and Critical Notes Designed as a Help to a Better Understanding of the Sacred Writings

“When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.”

People States Given Forget Class Teacher Four Praise Arguing Shooting Grades Subtle Never Forget Given Up Sixth Grade Kent

Author:Jello Biafra

“In all sensation we pick and choose, interpret, seek and impose order, and devise and test hypotheses about what we witness. Sense data are taken, not merely given: we learn to perceive.... The teacher has forgotten, and the student himself will soon forget, that what he sees conveys no information until he knows beforehand the kind of thing he is expected to see.”

Knows Kind Order Given Forget Taken Teacher Information Students Picks Tests Forgotten Expected Witness Data Perceive Sensations Hypothesis

Author:Peter Medawar

“There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.”

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics