I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
I can't say I ever remember getting less than a whole child in my 29 years here.They come in whole and I teach 'em that way.
school people must not fall into the trap of thinking that early preparation for an unjust world requires early exposure to injustice
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
It's good to have a special price to pay for the future and it will pay you in return, in the exact way you would wish to be paid.
What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.
For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced
I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do whether you like it or not
We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.
I've been wondering if in fact ideal platonic love isn't just an intensely concentrated form of what inspires the best teachers.
Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world.
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
The older members of my family always demonstrate education as a cure to a disease but I think education is not a cure. It's immunity.
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.