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“I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.”

Thinking Years Persons Voice Opinion Teacher Position Particular Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.”

Needs Opinion Laughing Teacher Enlightened Laughed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.”

Shows Action Passion Interest Opinion Teacher Practicals Superiority

Book:The Treason of the Intellectuals

Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals

“You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!”

Enough Guy Found Jesus Opinion Teacher Crazy Members News Adults Bigger Majority Jew Minorities Shy Senior Homosexual Good News Polls Santa Santa Claus Nra Being Shy

Author:Bill Maher

“I had a great acting teacher in high school. But I didnt like acting because it took too many people to get the job done. You have to talk to too many people and listen to others opinions. With music, you get a few friends together and just make it.”

People Done School Together Jobs Acting Opinion Teacher High School Get The Job Done Few Friends Others Opinions Acting Teachers

Author:Hugh Dillon

“Opinions have greater power than strength of hands.”

Hands Opinion Greater Teacher Teaching Greater Power

Author:Sophocles

“If a teacher have any opinion which he wishes to conceal, his pupils will become as fully indoctrinated into that as into any which he publishes.”

Ifs Wish Education Opinion Teacher Publish Pupils

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.”

Responsibility Opinion Teacher Taught Huge Lessons Life Lesson Appreciated Taught Us Underpaid Trigonometry

Author:Justin Timberlake

“If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.”

“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

“Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.”

People Opinion Teacher Calling Doctors Entrepreneur Workers Greed Ministers Endeavor Farmers Capitalist Offense Public Opinion Clerks Censure

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“There is also one excellent reason why the veriest amateur may feel entitled to have an opinion about education. For if we are not all professional teachers, we have all, at some time or other, been taught. Even if we learned nothing-perhaps in particular if we learned nothing-our contribution to the discussion may have a potential value.”

Ifs Feels May Reason Values Opinion Teacher Taught Particular Excellent Reason Why Discussion Contribution Entitled

Book:The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers

Source: The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers

“There are a lot of polls that show that actually Americans have a pretty high opinion of teachers, that Americans think teachers are just about as prestigious as doctors.”

Thinking Shows Opinion Teacher Doctors Polls Prestigious

Author:Dana Goldstein