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“But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.”

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“My gratitude to them [my first teachers] grows as I myself grow older.”

Firsts Grows Teacher Gratitude

Author:George Sarton

“We encounter the grinding wheels that sharpen our mental blades many places in life. Adversity, school, parents, spiritual guides, books, experience are all sharpening teachers. As we grow older, to stay sharp we must find new grindstones to whet and sharpen our potential and keep us at our brightest, most penetrating best.”

Book School Spiritual Grows Parent Teacher Adversity Guides Encounters Wheels Blades Sharpening Place In Life Grindstone

Author:Rob Kall

“The clergy profession is fundamentally self-defeating. Its stated purpose is to nurture spiritual maturity in the church - a valuable goal. In actuality, however; it accomplishes the opposite by nurturing a permanent dependence of the laity on the clergy. Clergy become to their congregations like parents whose children never grow up, like therapists whose clients never become healed, like teachers whose students never graduate.”

“Relationships are our primary teacher. They are the context in which we either grow into God consciousness, or deny ourselves and others the opportunity to do so.”

Opportunity Grows Consciousness Teacher Deny Primaries

Book:Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

Source: Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage

“You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge - not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.”

Mean Grows Understanding Steps Teach Teacher Risk Team Within You Take Time Taking Risks Deep Understanding

Author:Sharon Lawrence

“Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.”

World Heart Enough Bigs Grows Teacher Inspire Changing The World Smallest

Author:Paula Fox

“I begin with humility, I act with humility, I end with humility. Humility leads to clarity. Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving heart. With an open mind and a forgiving heart, I see every person as superior to me in some way; with every person as my teacher, I grow in wisdom. As I grow in wisdom, humility becomes ever more my guide. I begin with humility, I act with humility, I end with humility.”

Way Mind Heart Persons Ends Grows Teacher Humility Forgiving Guides Superiors Clarity Open Mind Forgiving Heart

Book:Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

Source: Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.”

Children Grows Teacher Masters Fool Let Me

Author:Rumi

“Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.”

“I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.”

People Needs Feels Grows Class Principles Teacher Students Equal Comfortable Uncomfortable Paradox Good Teacher Invoke

Author:Erica Brown

“Words of encouragement, a little respect, simple gestures of kindness from a teacher promote the perfect climate for studetns to study, learn, and grow.”

Littles Grows Simple Perfect Kindness Study Teacher Encouragement Climate Gestures Words Of Encouragement

Author:Donna Fargo

“When we are young, parents and teachers tell us we can do anything and become whatever we want. But as we grow older, these same people tell us we must be more realistic.”

People Want Young Grows Parent Can Do Teacher Realistic Parents And Teachers Young Parents

Book:Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World

Source: Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World

“My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.”

Want Said Grows Growing Up Teacher Assignments

Author:John Lennon