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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
I wasn't a happy teacher, but I also wasn't an absolute psychopath like the teachers I portray on screen.
Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.
We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
Well, first I studied piano. I wasn't very satisfied because I though my teachers were dumb... and repressive.
When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
Except for teachers, who are 'controlled' as far as his militancy is concerned, good jobs are rare for Negroes.
Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.
When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.
Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.
I think you become a writer when you stop writing for yourself or your teachers and start thinking about readers.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.
Your example should be stellar among your friends, associates, family, teachers, co-workers, and other Christians.
I come from a family of educationists and both my parents as well as my younger brother and his wife are teachers.
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
I was always being told off at school. The teachers would say: 'Everyone's talking, but you're the one I can hear.'
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
Speaking to numerous teachers and nurses, I am consistently struck by the sense of mission they have about their work.
It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
Public school teachers enjoy a huge amount of job security, thanks to their powerful unions and inflexible work rules.
To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.
A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.
I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
I hated my teachers because I knew they didn't care, and I knew they had no control over me, so I hated them even more.
If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.
I vote far-left. I am frequently angered by corporate greed and think education ought to be free and teachers paid well.
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.
For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.