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“The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.”

World Artist Teacher Ought Reporters Great Teacher

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.”

Thinking Wells Left Teacher Ought Vote Paid Greed Corporate Corporate Greed

Author:Eleanor Catton

“... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.”

Want Energy Brain Teacher Ought Ambition Something Better

Book:Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

Source: Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times

“Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.”

Giving Art Helping Psychology Teacher Teaching Ought Radical Teaching 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

“Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.”

Want Mind Children Littles Real School Language Teach Teacher Ought Program Grades Educate Foreign Language Grades In School

Author:David McCullough

“To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like.”

Thinking Men I Can Feelings School Evil Situation Poverty Teacher Ought Sake Pursue Shock Bent

Book:Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen

Source: Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen

“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.”

People Ifs Said Eye Guy Asks Found Stuff My Own Interesting Fiction Class Teacher Magic Ought One Day Hey Generous Professors This Guy

Author:John D'Agata

“I had a very good English teacher who said to me that she thought I ought to do it. She - I don't know, she saw something thank goodness because I think if it hadn't been encouraged by somebody that serious, I'm not sure what would've happened to me.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Said Saws Teacher Happened Serious Ought Goodness Very Good Not Sure English Teacher

Author:Maggie Smith