The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.
I hoped to get instruction in Yoga, expected wonderful teachings, but what the teacher did was mainly to force me to face the darkness within myself and it almost killed me. . . . I was beaten down in every sense until I had to come to terms with that in me which I kept rejecting all my life.
She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.
When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of what teaching requires would say such a thing.
Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars. . . that is a storybook, Hollywood version of the enlightenment experience.
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
When speaking to parents, I encourage them to take their child(ren) to a children's museum and watch carefully what the child does, how sheshe does it, what heshe returns to, where there is definite growth. Teachers could do the same or could set up 'play areas' which provide 'nutrition' for different intelligences. . . and watch carefully what happens and what does not happen with each child.
Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.
I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves
Oh, be assured fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.
You can't tell parents to teach children the value of work when we don't have jobs and the jobs we have don't pay a decent wage. You can't tell children to achieve and then let them go to broken-down schools with teachers who don't care. We need a consistency of values in our public, corporate, and private lives.
A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.
By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.
I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.