“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