Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher.
Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.
I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
History is admirably dangerous. It is not the soft option. Teachers need to be grown up and brave. Sensitivity is fine, but it stops at the door of honest narrative.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.
Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.
Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
I owe the little formal education I got to my drama teacher, Mr. Pickett, who got us to read Shakespeare, Moliere, and other classics.
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor.
I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.
I had a great movement teacher - he showed me how to walk so I wasn't becoming like a cartoon.
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
