“It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.” IfsPersonsMatterHappensLastsTeacherThousandEnlightenmentLifetimeComplicatedThings To DoEnlightenedBootsComplicated Things Author:Frederick Lenz
“Sometimes when you are with an enlightened teacher, you will feel both pleasant and unpleasant things magnified. That happens when you meditate with someone who goes into very strong states of altered consciousness.” FeelsSometimesStatesHappensStrongConsciousnessTeacherPleasantEnlightenedVery StrongAltered Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you have done your homework, then the slightest motion from the teacher can cause you to spin into hundreds of different states of mind. That can only happen for the prepared individual.” IfsMindDifferentStatesDoneHappensIndividualCausesTeacherPreparedEnlightenedState Of MindHomework Author:Frederick Lenz
“A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.” FirstsHappensTeacherContactPlanesEnlightenedTraveledInitials Author:Frederick Lenz
“Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.” MenWellsKindPersonsLongHappensAmericaRememberYoungFallNextCommunitySleepSecretStruggleTeacherDependsYoung ManTonightWrestling Author:Barack Obama
“I always wanted to be an actor, but in Edmonton, Alberta, that's not a success-oriented career. So I said, 'I'll get my (teaching) degree and then I'll see what happens, but I'll always have that to fall back on.' So if anybody were to look at me and say, 'Oh, you're an actor,' I could always say, 'Hey man, I'm a teacher!'” IfsMenLooksSaidHappensWantedFallActorsCareersTeacherTeachingDegreesHeyLook At MeFall BackAlbertaEdmonton Author:Nathan Fillion
“Marlee [Matlin] is who she is and just happens to use an interpreter. I'm not a teacher. I'm not a helper. I'm just Jack, the interpreter guy.” UseHappensGuyTeacherInterpreterHelpers Author:Jack Jason
“A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.” WorldMayMeanWholeHappensMotherTeacherNeighborWhole WorldViciousVicious Cycles Author:Simon Soloveychik
“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
“[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.” BelieveChildrenHandsHappensFictionNovelTeacherLessonsRelateDisadvantages Author:Madame de Stael
“Half of all kids in public education are below the poverty line. Two-thirds of the achievement gap comes from factors outside of school. Teachers influence about seven to ten percent of what happens in kids' lives. When you think about those statistics, you have to think about how to re-envision education so it's holistic and so we share responsibility.” ThinkingTwoHappensKidsSchoolLinesHalfResponsibilityPovertyTeacherShareInfluenceTenAchievementPercentThirdsSevenFactorsStatisticsGapsHolisticPublic EducationSchool TeachersAchievement Gap Author:Randi Weingarten
“Think of your favorite teacher you ever had in school: the one who made it the most fun to go to class. They surprise you. They keep you guessing. They keep you coming back, wanting to know whats going to happen next.” ThinkingKnowsMadeHappensSchoolNextFunClassTeacherSurpriseMade ItComing BackThink Of YouGuessingYour Favorite Author:Pete Carroll
“Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.” HappensEarthTeacherStudentsDutyFlatsProfessorsHolocaustAcademicGeologyEuropean HistoryAcademic Freedom Author:Jerry A. Coyne
“Teaching a practice can also be a hindrance if it becomes one's identity. To be a spiritual teacher is a temporary function. I'm a spiritual teacher when somebody comes to me and some teaching happens, but the moment they leave I'm no longer a spiritual teacher. If I carry the identity of spiritual teacher, it will cause suffering.” IfsMomentsHappensSpiritualSufferingCausesPracticeTeacherTeachingIdentityFunctionTemporaryHindranceSpiritual Teachers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.” FeelsArtHappensPsychologyTeacherTeachingWorstConscienceProfessionHopelessWorst ThingsPsychologistGood TeacherTeaching Art Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals
“Once the awakening happens, with it comes the realization that suffering is unnecessary now. You have reached the end of suffering because you have transcended the world. It is the place that is free of suffering. This seems to be everybody's path. Perhaps it is not everybody's path in this lifetime, but it seems to be a universal path. Even without a spiritual teaching or a spiritual teacher, I believe that everybody would get there eventually. But that could take time.” WorldBelieveEndsSeemsHappensSpiritualSufferingI BelievePathTeacherTeachingUniversalLifetimeAwakeningRealizationTake TimeUnnecessarySpiritual TeachersSpiritual Teaching Author:Eckhart Tolle
“"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.” HappensSpiritualCoursesLeftTeacherTeachingIdentityFunctionSpiritual Teachers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.” KnowsYearsHappensSchoolFireTeacherTeachingGoes OnLosingGloryCoachesAccountabilityPublic SchoolSchool System Author:Ross Perot
“It also happens that I don't actually teach about the stuff I make things about. I'm not a film history teacher. In that way, it's also a release. But the ideas that I talk about in the movie are the same I talk about in school.” WayIdeasHappensSchoolFilmStuffTeachTeacherReleaseFilm HistoryHistory Teacher Author:Thom Andersen
“A great teacher once taught me that you've got to have faith that everything happens for the best. I have had many setbacks in my career and every setback has led me that much further into my truth.” HappensCareersTeacherTaughtThings HappenHave FaithSetbackGreat TeacherMy Truth Author:Suze Orman
“Religion teachers for Islam instruction are being trained now in Münster and Erlangen. This has to happen quickly. My goal is to achieve relevant results within two years.” YearsTwoHappensGoalResultsTeacherAchieveIslamTwo YearsRelevantInstruction Author:Wolfgang Schauble
“Any place where you have to deal with many social actors like a school - you have the parents, the Ministry of Education, the school board, and the teachers - you need all kinds of sets and rules. You're trying to foresee anything that can happen and everything becomes really rigid. They don't want to talk about death because they don't want to overwhelm the children, but that has already happened, so you're not going to overwhelm them more.” WantNeedsTryingKindChildrenHappensSchoolActorsSocialParentDealsTeacherHappenedAll KindsBoardsMinistrySchool Board Author:Philippe Falardeau
“The teacher will never be a parent. The parents are the parents. But they have to engage in some sort of active education beyond just teaching mathematics and French and English because the kids spend more time there than they do with their parents at that age. We have to accept that other adults will be part of our children's education and they will have bad teachers. That's going to happen.” ChildrenHappensKidsAgeParentAcceptingTeacherTeachingAdultsOur ChildrenMathematicsActiveMore TimeBad Teacher Author:Philippe Falardeau
“We had a teacher, named Mr. Brown, and he was writing something on the board once - he was writing something on the board, and he farted. And you would have thought kids had seen the face of God. Kids weren't even laughing; they were just sitting there screaming, just screaming. Kids had to get carted out; kids were screaming. Kids had to get carted out, and they were going to the nurses' office. Kids are crying in the hallway. 'Oh, this is our 9/11.' And it was. It was their 9/11 'cause they never thought anything like that could ever happen.” WritingHappensKidsFacesCausesLaughingTeacherCryOfficeSittingBoardsBrownNurseHallwaysMr Brown Author:Donald Glover
“I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."” IfsThinkingKnowsLooksMeanPlayUseHappensEyeUsedKnow HowTeacherPhotographFishesSavedEnjoyedArtisticObsessedRelyEndeavorImageryCapturedGood TeacherAnything In LifeEngulfing Author:Amy Ryan
“It seemed from the media that we were being told that all Haitians had AIDS. At the time, I had just come from Haiti. I was twelve years old, and the building I was living in had primarily Haitians. A lot of people got fired from their jobs. At school, sometimes in gym class, we'd be separated because teachers were worried about what would happen if we bled. So there was really this intense discrimination.” PeopleIfsYearsSometimesHappensSchoolJobsClassTeacherMediaBuildingAidsDiscriminationIntenseWorriedGymTwelveHaitiGym Class Author:Edwidge Danticat