#student

but when i write, i feel like the most important man in the world, because when i write, i give meaning to things. i create significance, and i create meanings, and as hard as that may for you to believe, that's really even more important in the long run than life and death. ↗

— Elliot Mabeuse

#elliot-mabeuse #writing #death

I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night. ↗

— Christopher Darden

#advised #case #did #doing #i

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#caring #effort #experience #garden #gardener

The enemy of learning is knowing. ↗

— Steve Ahn

#school #students #teaching #education

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#classroom #feedback #growth #measures #multiple

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000. ↗

— Arne Duncan

#earnings #encourage #lot #more #much

In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help. ↗

— William Glasser

#ask #being #book #books #closed

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy. ↗

— William Glasser

#even #good #grade #help #help others

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. ↗

— William Glasser

#intellectual #lack #relationship #school #students

By offering an education centered on values, the faculty in Catholic schools can create an interactive setting between parents and students that is geared toward long-term healthy character and scholastic development for all enrolled children. ↗

— Mark Foley

#catholic #catholic schools #centered #character #children