“Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.” PeopleLooksSchoolTeacherHeardCharterCharter Schools Author:Dana Goldstein
“I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.” PeopleWantChildrenKidsTeacherFrontsFeedbackLoops Author:Dana Goldstein
“One of the things my friends would tell you is that I hang out with a lot of non-writers - just regular people like bankers and teachers, and I actually try to steer our talk away from my work when I get together with them.” PeopleTryingTogetherTeacherMy FriendsHanging OutBankersSteersGet Together Author:Chang-Rae Lee
“When I was sixteen, I began to think outside the box of my small town. Not that the people in my small town are in a box - they're not! There's a brilliant college there, and I had brilliant teachers from that college. But in terms of a conservative upbringing, which I did have within my own family, I just began to question things and to think for myself.” PeopleThinkingTermMy OwnTeacherCollegeTownsConservativeBoxesBrilliantSmall TownUpbringingSixteenOutside The BoxThink Outside The Box Author:Ronee Blakley
“I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even if they weren't in sequence; kept out of classes with people I knew from high school, because I tended to act like the class clown around them; selected teachers by their teaching style - until I could build up my study habits. I ended up graduating with a 3.97 GPA and got into Harvard for my doctorate.” PeopleIfsSchoolCoursesAttentionClassStudyTeacherTeachingStyleCollegeHabitHigh SchoolPaidLocalsGraduatesClownSequenceHarvardSelectedDoctoratesGpa Author:L. Todd Rose
“Who are these evil ones? In 1984, the evil one was called Goldstein. Orwell was writing a grim parody. But these people running the United States mean what they say. If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingMeanBookStatesRunningEvilAnimalUnitedUnited StatesTeacherStudentsFarmsGrimParody Author:John Pilger
“There were so many great teachers that had so much to offer. The idea of being rigid, why would you do that? People have their things, but why be rigid with any education when you can take things from here and take things from there?” PeopleIdeasTeacherOffersGreat Teacher Author:Johnny Depp
“My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.” PeopleYearsPlayWantedSchoolNightSongTeacherPiecesTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolMusicalOilNineBackgroundsTexasElitesTimingTraveledOutstandingBucksSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Carl Gardner
“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.” PeopleIfsSaidEyeGuyAsksFoundStuffMy OwnInterestingFictionClassTeacherMagicOughtOne DayHeyGenerousProfessorsThis Guy Author:John D'Agata
“If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.” PeopleIfsWayKidsTeacherGayInstanceClassroomRepresentationGay PeoplePositive Image Author:Amy Ray
“I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.” PeopleSpiritualFormCasesTeacherHappenedExampleEgoSpiritual Teachers Author:Eckhart Tolle
“When people say that entertainers should "know your place," they might as well say the same thing about plumbers and teachers and cab drivers. We all should be able to express our views.” PeopleKnowsShouldWellsMightAbleViewsTeacherDriversEntertainersCabPlumberCab Drivers Author:Viggo Mortensen
“One of the characteristics of every great teacher I've known is tremendous exertion. It's interesting: You may see them as spiritual people or compassionate people, but the driving force is that incredible exertion - and their ability to sustain it.” PeopleMaySpiritualForceAbilityInterestingKnownTeacherIncrediblesDrivingCharacteristicsCompassionateGreat TeacherExertionDriving Force Author:Sakyong Mipham
“My music is very edgy and the energy is very raw, but I am also getting out this positive message without being a teacher. I don't want to hear anybody preach or teach things to me, especially when I was a kid. But there are messages that people are grabbing onto without me even realizing that they are messages.” PeopleWantKidsEnergyRealizingTeachTeacherMessagesMusic IsEdgyGrabbingBeing A TeacherPositive Messages Author:Shane Bunting
“I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular.” PeopleThinkingFirstsPoorEnemyTeacherGroupsStartingHip HopHipsHopsBarriersRighteousQuestioningPublic Enemies Author:Ice Cube