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Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards. ↗

— John Engler

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I think we've got outstanding teaching in Michigan classrooms. ↗

— John Engler

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I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist. ↗

— Ike Turner

#applied #artist #being #considered #entertain

They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ↗

— Simone Weil

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... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness... ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#learning #love #parenting #teaching #trying

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#parenting #teaching #parenting

Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference. ↗

— John Wooden

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The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students). ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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