I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.
The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relati...
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
Pride adversely affects all our relationships - our relationship with God and His servants, between husband and wife, parent and child, employer and employee, teacher and student, and all mankind.
The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.
We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.
I judge preschool teachers and actresses shamelessly. The first five minutes I meet them.
I just thought that was the most noble contribution you could make to human kind, was to be a teacher.
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
I'm indebted to the teachers who shaped me - from the Sisters of St. Joseph at St. Croix Catholic elementary to the monks of St. John's in Minnesota to my professors at Georgetown.
