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#1

“People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: america, big-bang, big-bang-theory, church-and-state, creation, creationism, dinosaurs, education, evolution, first-amendment, freedom, freedom-of-religion, intelligent-design, letters, literacy, new-jersey, new-york-times, noah-s-ark, religion, scientific-literacy, teachers, teaching

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#2

“Sometimes dead is better”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

tags: creed, dead, death, undead

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#3

“I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized.”
― Haim Ginott

tags: teaching

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#4

“There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham worked in a no-coddling zone. Self-esteem? He knew there was really only one way to teach kids how to develop it: You give them something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: children, teaching

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#5

“A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.”
― Jane Smiley

tags: teaching

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#6

“The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: achievement, barrier, determination, development, feelings, help, helping-hand, humility, improvement, inferiority, intelligence, knowledge, learning, self-improvement, taught, teaching, wisdom

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#7

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”
― Lee Iacocca

tags: teaching

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#8

“Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.”
― Virginia Woolf, Monday or Tuesday

tags: belief, reading, teaching, women

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#9

“This is precisely why I loathed being a teacher! Young people are so infernally convinced that they are absolutely right about everything. Has it not occurred to you, my poor puffed-up poppinjay, that there might be an excellent reason why the Headmaster of Hogwarts is not confiding every tiny detail of his plans to you? Have you never paused, while feeling hard-done-by, to note that following Dumbledore's orders has never yet led you into harm? No. No, like all young people, you are quite sure that you alone feel and think, you alone recognise danger, you alone are the only one clever enough to realise what the Dark Lord may be planning.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: funny, teaching

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#10

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: action-plans, becoming, belief-system, blueprint, caring, change, character, characteristics, compassion, confidence, core-values, decisions, example, friendship, future, good-choices, growing-up, growth, honesty, identity, leadership, learning, lessons-learned, life-choices, life-direction, life-map, life-purpose, life-purpose-101, love, past, principles, reactions, resolver-vs-reactor, self-assessment, self-awareness, self-beliefs, self-esteem-101, self-improvement, self-transformation, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, students, teachers, teaching, traits, values, wisdom

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#11

“The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.”
― Paul Halmos

tags: learning, teaching

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#12

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

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#13

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

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#14

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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#15

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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#16

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

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#17

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: attributed, fear, inspiration

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#18

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#19

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

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