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“I learned from my own teachers, a long time ago in another universe, the quality of quiet fortitude that is renewed by a person's love of light.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.”

“The quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers.”

Quality Teacher Exceed Education System

Author:Andreas Schleicher

“In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.”

Book Helping School Asks Quality Teacher Teaching Students Tests Notes Forbidden

Author:William Glasser

“The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.”

Children Important Quality Teacher Amount Performances Important Things Maximum Inspirational Teacher

Author:Michael Gove

“Those qualities that separate us are often ridiculed by others or criticized by teachers. Because of these judgments, we might see our strengths as disabilities and try to work around them in order to fit in. But anything that is peculiar to our makeup is precisely what we must pay the deepest attention to and lean on in our rise to mastery.”

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Book:Mastery

Source: Mastery

“In the Reggio Emilia preschools, however, each child is viewed as infinitely capable, creative, and intelligent. The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways so that they develop fully.”

Way Children Jobs Challenges Quality Support Creative Teacher Capable Intelligent Appropriate

Author:Louise Boyd

“The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.”

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Author:Robert E. Murray

“Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential.”

Thinking School Levels Quality Teacher Students Inspire Higher Demand Performances Excellence Mere Conformity Nurture Great Teacher Higher Level Quality Work

Author:Oliver DeMille

“For me as a midfielder, Paul Scholes was the best possible teacher. When people ask me my hardest opponent, I always refer to Paul in training. Facing him improved me so much because his astonishing quality gave me something to aim for. He never gave the ball away, he could nutmeg you, he could make you look a fool, his range of passing was remarkable, his touch and awareness, everything was top notch. Seeing Scholesy made you stand back and realize you had a long way to go, because he was awesome.”

“Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me, the intimate teachers have not only taught me how to make things, they have represented some qualities of mind and mindfulness that I would like to have.”

People Mind Reading Imagination Existence Quality Teacher Taught Ready Mindfulness Work Out Intimate Shock Gymnasiums

Author:Robert Hass

“Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training”

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Book:The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist

Source: The Elephant and the Flea: Reflections of a Reluctant Capitalist