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“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.”

Mother Christianity Virtue Teacher Humility Roots Foundation Nurse Bishops

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Teachers and nurses get the best seats in Heaven.”

Heaven Teacher Seats Nurse

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.”

People Knows Home Pain Know How Teacher Doctors Abuse Forgotten Lawyer Vulnerability Nurse Betray

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.”

Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase

“There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.”

Humanity Causes Numbers Teacher Groups Profession Objectives Primaries Making Money Owners Nurse Bookstores Bartender

Book:Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

Source: Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -

“In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.”

Would Be Jobs Teacher Students Communication Institutions Nurse Nonviolent Communication Giraffe

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“We live in a highly industrialized society and every member of the Black nation must be as academically and technologically developed as possible. To wage a revolution, we need competent teachers, doctors, nurses, electronics experts, chemists, biologists, physicists, political scientists, and so on and so forth. Black women sitting at home reading bedtime stories to their children are just not going to make it.”

“My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.”

Wanted Parent Teacher College Independent Boss Nurse Secretary Employed Librarian Sibling My Siblings Contractor

Author:Bette Midler

“As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.”

Thinking World May Lying Lost My Own Teacher Office Capable Sick Teenager Being The Best Nurse Headphones My Own World Best Day Ever

Author:Wesley Eisold

“Nurses nurse and teachers teach and tailors mend and preachers preach and barbers trim and chauffeurs haul and parents get to do it all.”

Parent Teach Teacher Nurse Preacher Haul Tailors Barbers Chauffeurs

Author:Babs Bell Hajdusiewicz

“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.”

Writing Happens Kids Faces Causes Laughing Teacher Cry Office Sitting Boards Brown Nurse Hallways Mr Brown

Author:Donald Glover