As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.
My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.
All teachers are already leaders. It's in the nature of teaching.
I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment
Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their relationships with their parents, their grandparents, their peers, and their teachers that help them to know that for sure. A child can learn the word "hug" and the letters h-u-g through a computer, but a computer can never give the child a hug.
Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is.
We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the. . . the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.
Consciousness-based education, which I am helping to promote, is basically the same education that good schools are giving today with Transcendental Meditation added for the students, teachers, staff, and principal.
Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
In differentiated classrooms, teachers begin where students are, not the front of a curriculum guide.
I'm committed to working with teachers.
If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
One of the major challenges facing creative individuals is that of building upon the continuity of human knowledge while achieving novel insights. . . . On the one hand, to intensify an inquiry and develop a sense of commitment to a creative life, the learner needs models, teachers, and collaborators. On the other hand, the individual, while building upon the past, needs to transform it, and thus broaden his or her choices.
Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.
One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.
I think we spend too much on K-12 education a. k. a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.
If teaching were easy, we wouldn't need teachers.
If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.
Advanced Teachers always forgive. It is inevitable that anyone who seek knowledge and power will make many mistakes.