Educator Quotes: Inspiring Words from Teachers and Mentors (Page 2)

"If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"All of the studies we do in my group are quantified"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Everything that gets born dies"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"God can only do for you what He can do through you"

Eric Butterworth, Educator

"Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements"

John Sexton, Educator

"And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position"

John Sexton, Educator

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe"

Catharine Beecher, Educator

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true"

Catharine Beecher, Educator

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence"

Booker T. Washington, Educator

"The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts"

William Lyon Phelps, Educator

"The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects"

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Educator

"Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic"

Betty Dodson, Educator

"Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not"

Howard Thurman, Educator

"The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure"

Robert C. Solomon, Educator

"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age"

Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator

"The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent"

Robert Brustein, Educator

"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades"

John P. Kotter, Educator

"Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air"

George Combe, Educator

"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare"

William Vickrey, Educator

"Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda"

John Yoo, Educator

"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality"

Paul Farmer, Educator

"Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?"

Max Muller, Educator

"The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics"

Michael Pollan, Educator

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