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Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
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Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.
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Successful engineering is all about understanding how things break or fail.


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I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.
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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
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Federal policy should not block those who are prepared to risk their own wealth to create an enormous energy export industry here in America.
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The true teachers and educators are not those who have learned pedagogy as the science of dealing with children, but those in whom pedagogy has awakened through understanding the human being.
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The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count.
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In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.
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The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.
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Put good energy out. Get good energy back.


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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
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Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.
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One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.
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The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.
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At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
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One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.


Itzhak Perlman