#teachers

Those who know how to think need no teachers. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#ask #back #bored #contract #could

I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment. ↗

— James Levine

#i #lucky #mentors #met #moment

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#brutal #god #learn #most #teachers

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#because #being #change #character #come

Like most of the other teachers, I'd done a bit of teaching and we all think we're great at what we do, but you realize that normally you have an audience who are all onside, who all want to listen. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #done #great #i #like

And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work, failing to do all the things we could do right now to help the economy and middle class, this Congress is just saying no. ↗

— David Plouffe

#back #class #congress #could #dream

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty. ↗

— Jon Porter

#congress #country #faculty #fastest #growing

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy. ↗

— Michael Porter

#best #ceos #core #i #know

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind. ↗

— Colin Powell

#ask #because #behind #children #giving