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“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of the naïve ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.”

Knows World Term Teacher Imagine Youth Ideals Idealism Naive Evaluate Places In The World Nameless

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.”

“For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.”

Stars White Fire Teacher Youth Aspire

Author:Matthew Arnold

“But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.”

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”

“I am not and will never again be a young writer, a young homeowner, a young teacher. I was never a young wife. The only thing I could do now for which my youth would be a truly notable feature would be to die. If I died now, I'd die young. Everything else, I'm doing middle-aged.”

Ifs Would Be Young Dies Teacher Wife Middle Youth Died Features Notable Middle Aged Young Writers Die Young Homeowners Young Wife

Book:The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

Source: The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

“Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.”

Men Teacher Teaching Youth Equal Every Man Bows Ulysses

Book:The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)

“When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold.”

Age Form Young Fire Teacher Youth Cold Old Age Gave Up

Book:The Notebooks of Robert Frost

Source: The Notebooks of Robert Frost

“I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.”

Persons Doe Would Be Roles Teacher Influence Example Youth Mom Models My Mom Role Models Good Person Counselor

Author:Carrie Underwood

“If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth.”

Ifs Heart Real Helping Problem Joy Teacher Share Youth Sorrow Solve Aspiration Guardian Joys And Sorrows

Book:My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography

“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.”

Ifs Knows Turns Stuff Brain Teacher Objects Youth Models Absolutes Tyrants Originality Apes Pupils Persecuted Erudite No Sympathy

Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.”

Ifs Way Should Shows School Next House Parent Acting Class Teacher Youth Drama Lucky Sunday Ritual Opera Classroom Saturday Monday Curb Disruptive After School Opera House Drama Class

Author:David Wenham

“Because I have a passion for the play. My father was a chess teacher, and I learned the play of him as a small child. Occasionally I made another career; but now I have again the possibility of maintaining the passion of my early youth days.”

Children Made Play Passion Father Careers Teacher Possibility Youth Chess Maintaining Small Child

Author:Carmen Kass