Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.
Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
Americans always ask how much I love my accent, and I don't get that - I think I sound like a school teacher.
I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement.
I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.
Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.
I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.
I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me 'Duck.'
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
Teacher: A golden future awaits you. Just kidding.
Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
