“Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present” ThinkingWayKindDoeTurnsReligiousTeacherMagicTeachingDivineFlowMiracleReleaseTunesCatalystTeachers And Teaching Author:Eric Butterworth
“Motherhood is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you would have. It's about understanding that he is exactly the person he is supposed to be. And that, if you're lucky, he just might be the teacher who turns you into the person you are supposed to be.” IfsChildrenPersonsMightTurnsUnderstandingTeacherLuckyMotherhoodCelebrateSupposed To Be Author:Joan Ryan
“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.” MaySchoolArtistTurnsTeacherTownsPainterCopiesHonourAbandonedImitation Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened. The teachers can't teach and administrators run the place and nobody can be fired. It's terrible.” RunningTurnsTeachTeacherHappenedWorstTerribleUnionsWorst ThingsBureaucracyAdministratorsMeritocracy Author:Steve Jobs
“I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.” PeopleGivingMotherTurnsGamesTeacherSpeechGiving UpTherapyAutismAuntOne On OneNanniesScience TeacherYaksSpeech Therapy Author:Temple Grandin
“If I'm going to continue to be any kind of spiritual teacher, I've got to go deeper myself. And so for me, [I am] preserving long periods of solitude, silence, prayer, journaling, study, writing. I don't turn on music or the TV unless I really need to.” IfsNeedsWritingKindLongSpiritualTurnsPrayerSilenceStudyTeacherTvsPeriodsSolitudeDeeperTurn-onSpiritual TeachersJournaling Author:Richard Rohr
“You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside of you. That's not you. That's coming from the culture. That's coming from the outside of you. You've internalized the voice of your parents, your teachers, your friends.” ThinkingTurnsCultureParentVoiceAbilityTeacherWho You AreCriticalTurn Off Author:Robert Greene
“The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.” TurnsTeacherFailingStudents Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“School success is not predicted by a child's fund of facts or a precocious ability to read as much as by emotional and social measures; being self-assured and interested: knowing what kind of behavior is expected and how to rein in the impulse to misbehave; being able to wait, to follow directions, and to turn to teachers for help; and expressing needs while getting along with other children.” NeedsKindChildrenSelfFactsHelpingAbleSchoolTurnsSocialWaitingAbilityKnowingTeacherEmotionalBehaviorExpectedImpulseFundAssuredReinsGetting AlongPrecocious Author:Daniel Goleman
“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.” ChildrenTodayTurnsCultureParentLinesMy OwnRoomsTalkingClassPovertyGoneFiveTeacherViolenceGenerationsChildhoodDrugConcernSuicideMadAddAddictionMotherhoodAidsFeaturesUsaPregnancyTeenageCleaningGangHomelessnessHomeworkAnorexiaDrug AddictionDrug AddictAdventGumChewingBulimiaSnapshotsHomicideParents And TeachersChewing GumTeenage PregnancyGang ViolenceAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Mary Blakely
“Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official curriculum. This encourages teachers to turn to their colleagues for inspiration and ideas.” GivingIdeasInspirationTurnsSpaceWhiteTeacherPercentInnovationCome UpOfficialsColleaguesCurriculumSingaporeSpace TimeWhite Space Author:Andy Hargreaves
“We need more leaders among our gente - more teachers, politicians, businesspeople, organizers, and such. Turn the energy that many young people are putting into "war" and "death" and put it into life and true justice.” PeopleNeedsWarYoungTurnsEnergyJusticeLeaderTeacherPoliticianOrganizerTrue JusticeWar And Death Author:Luis J. Rodriguez
“I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.” IfsKindI CanIdeasReasonEnoughStoriesKidsTurnsTeacherInfluenceAdultsLove Story Author:Jim Carrey
“Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.” ThinkingWayMayTurnsCoursesTeacherSubjectsTaughtFascinatingProfessorsGreat Teacher Author:David McCullough
“'Teachers Lounge' is a web series I co-created with Hollis James. We intentionally left the apostrophe out to turn 'Lounge' into a verb. The show is about teachers lounging around, wasting time.” ShowsTurnsLeftTeacherSeriesWasting TimeVerbsLounging Author:Ted Alexandro
“People (or students) do not have shortcomings, only uniquenesses. The goal of a good teacher is to turn these uniquenesses into advantages.” PeopleTurnsGoalTeacherStudentsAdvantageUniquenessShortcomingsGood Teacher Author:Israel Gelfand
“When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.” ChildrenPersonsWholeTurnsParentTeacherManagersInnocenceBubbles Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“[Eugene] O'Neill made a living, certainly, at least. But each of these forms have sort of died the death in turn, and it's a simple fact of that universe that talent then migrates away from these forms, and then the amateurs get in, like lunatics in the ruins, sort of pretending to be artists. If you're ambitious enough to want to be a writer to begin with, you want to be a writer in some circumstances where there are rewards, where there's notice, where you don't have to be a teacher, and where you're frankly not nuts for wasting your time.” IfsWantMadeEnoughFactsFormArtistTurnsUniverseSimpleTeacherTalentCircumstancesDiedRewardsRuinsPretendingNutsAmbitiousWasting Your TimeMigrateEugene O Neill Author:William Monahan
“Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy with youth; their one object was to stuff our brains and turn us into erudite apes like themselves. If any pupil showed the slightest trace of originality, they persecuted him relentlessly, and the only model pupils whom I have ever got to know have all been failures in after-life.” IfsKnowsTurnsStuffBrainTeacherObjectsYouthModelsAbsolutesTyrantsOriginalityApesPupilsPersecutedEruditeNo Sympathy Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944 Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944
“I know what it's like to have a dream. I know what it's like to roll the dice and say, 'I'm going to go after this thing,' and nothing turns my stomach quicker than acting teachers or acting schools that look at a bunch of dreamers and say, 'We can help,' when they know full well that they can't.” KnowsWellsLooksHelpingDreamSchoolTurnsActingTeacherBunchStomachDreamerDiceActing Teachers Author:Jim Parrack