#teacher

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#california #children #down #first #generation

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety. ↗

— Ken Wilber

#i #most #nice #nice guy #our

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#everybody #incapable #learning #taken #teaching

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme. ↗

— Saul Williams

#i #mother #preacher #rhyme #teacher

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off. ↗

— Vanessa Williams

#had #off #parents #summers #teachers

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#compassion #fearlessness #flower #greatest #love

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#cut #draw #economy #government #government spending

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#art #believe #building #create #drive

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#auto #auto industry #because #detroit #economist

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#first #get #going #help #i